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A reading of Hardy’s The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved illustrates the fictional projection of island territory as a site of the repetition compulsion embodied in the hero’s love affairs with three generations of girls from the same family on Portland Bill. The chapter also shows how the art of sculpture is complicit with a regressive gender ideology, and goes on to explore the implications of the island in debates surrounding the conduct of the Boer War.
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Ebbatson, R. (2016). The Isle of Slingers: Hardy & Portland Bill. In: Landscapes of Eternal Return. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32838-6_10
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