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Chapter 12 shows how Hardy, in A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), satirised Comte’s view of love and marriage and, more generally, Victorian civilisation from the standpoint of Drysdale and Mill.
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Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes: Oxford World’s Classics, intr. A. Manford (Oxford, 1985).
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Comte, General View, p. 225.
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Comte, General View, pp. 251, 256.
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Comte, General View, pp. p. 273, 274.
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Comte, General View, pp. 276, 280.
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Bjork, Psychological Vision, p. 24.
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Bjork, Psychological Vision, p. 35.
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J. S. Mill, On Liberty and Other Essays, ed. and introduction, J. Gray (Oxford, 1991), p. 63.
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Mill, On Liberty, p. 64.
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Mill, On Liberty, pp. 66, 67.
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Mill, On Liberty, pp. 68, 69.
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Mill, On Liberty, p. 69.
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Mill, On Liberty, pp. 70, 71.
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Hardy, Desperate Remedies, p. 370.
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Reid, F. (2017). Satire and Romance: A Pair of Blue Eyes . In: Thomas Hardy and History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54175-4_12
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