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No English novelist is more misunderstood than Hardy as far as his views on sex and marriage are concerned. He was castigated on the one hand as the prophet of promiscuity, and hailed on the other as the first emancipated modern. But his real philosophical position on ‘the fiery phenomenon’ of love, it seems, has so far eluded the grasp of his critics.
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Notes
Hardy, Thomas, Jude the Obscure, Macmillan, London, 1957, p. 306.
Quoted from Thomas Hardy and His Readers, ed. L. Learner and J. Holmstorm, Bodley Head, London, 1968, p. 150.
Hardy, Thomas, Two on a Tower, Macmillan, London, 1947, p. 66.
Braybrook, Patrick, Thomas Hardy and his Philosophy, C.W. Daniel, London, 1928, p. 28.
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Dave, J.C. (1985). The Place of Sex in Hardy’s Ethics. In: The Human Predicament in Hardy’s Novels. Macmillan Hardy Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07646-8_9
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