H04036 THOMAS HARDY AND PSYCHOLOGY 5/20/04 HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE
From: srogers@sju.edu
Subject: Fwd: Thomas Hardy and psychology
Date: May 20, 2004 5:34:08 AM PDT
This was just posted to VICTORIA, and I thought it might find a quicker answer
here. Reply directly to either Victoria or Tracey Rosenberg <tsr@SPIES.COM>
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From: "Tracey S. Rosenberg" <tsr@SPIES.COM>
Subject: Thomas Hardy and psychology
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Hi,
Can anyone point me towards recent (last 25 years or so) studies that
examine Hardy's work from any kind of psychological perspective? I've
scraped up some references from various databases, but they aren't exactly
ten a penny, so any thoughts from list members would be greatly
appreciated.
Cheers,
Tracey S. Rosenberg
e-mail: my initials @spies.com
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From: Rosemary Morgan
Date: 5/20/04
Subject: Re. Fwd Thomas Hardy and Phycology
Tracey, here are some leads: Sumner, Rosemary *Thomas Hardy : Psychological Novelist )Macmillan: London and Basinstoke , 1981
J. Hillisz Miller's * Distance and Desire* (1970) remains a seminal work in this field-- but for comprehensive bibliography go to the Oxford Reader's Companian to Hardy edited by Norman Page (OUP, 2000)
Best,
Rosemarie Morgan
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From: schweikr@localnet.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Thomas Hardy and psychology
Date: May 20, 2004 1:25:49 PM PDT
Anent Tracey S. Rosenberg's inquiry, here are some relevant
items appearing in TTHA's Checklist:
Small, Helen, and Trudi Tate, editors. Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970:
Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
[Includes a chapter by Helen Small titled "Chances Are: Henry Buckle, Thomas Hardy,
and the Individual at Risk."]
Meijer, Henk Romijn. "Zou Thomas Hardy American Psycho Hebben Verslonden?"
Maatstaf 40.8-9 (August-September, 1992): 154-63.
[In Dutch. Listed in the MLA database on 13 October 2003. Subject descriptors include
"Jude the Obscure - novel - compared to Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho"]
Schapiro, Barbara A. "Psychoanalysis and Romantic Idealization: The Dialectics of Love
in Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd." American Imago 59.1 (2002): 3-26.
[Discusses the presence of "idealized, narcissistic fantasies" in such novels as
The Woodlanders, The Return of the Native, Jude the Obscure, and The Well-Beloved.
Concludes that Hardy's novels "sacrifice neither the ideal nor the real, allowing us to
appreciate the importance of both to a personally meaningful and deeply lived life."]
Lane, Christopher. The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Literature.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
[Includes a chapter titled "Hardy and the Claims of Friendship."]
[Reviewed by Christopher Newfield. Victorian Studies 44.2 (2002): 326-8.]
Reading, Diana [Letter from a psychotherapist responding to and expanding on
George Scott Christian's article "'I am I':A way to the Better in Hardy's 'The Pedigree'"
in the May 2002 Thomas Hardy Journal] The Thomas Hardy Journal 18.3
(October, 2002): 17-18.
Bob Schweik
Robert Schweik
University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Department of English
State University of New York
Fredonia, NY 14063
USA
schweik@fredonia.edu
schweikr@localnet.com
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From: PatriciaKelley@westat.com
Subject: RE: Fwd: Thomas Hardy and psychology
Date: May 20, 2004 2:18:00 PM PDT
This is great information, Bob. Thanks for posting it and thanks to Tracey Rosenberg for the original query.
Patty Kelley
From: johnvargheese@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Thomas Hardy and psychology
Date: May 23, 2004 4:45:05 AM PDT
Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
I joined up as a member some months ago.
As regards Hardy & Psychology I must tell you that I Have done a little work on Hardy using psychology. One study deals with Hardy's characters who have a tendancy to "roam"; the other study deals with Pierston, the character in The Well-Beloved , from a Lacanian perspective...I'll be very happy to share my thoughts with anyone who is interested. You may get in touch with me at
johnvargheese@hotmail.com
John Varghese
From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Hardy and Psychology
Date: May 24, 2004 6:55:21 AM PDT
Dear All,
Tracey Rosesnberg has asked me to pass on her thanks to those who responded
to her request for information about Hardy and psychology. She says the
responses were extremely helpful, and have given her much to work with.
Best Wishes,
Betty Cortus