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The Return of the Native offers us a powerful account of what constitutes a primitive territorial formation and the threats that assail it. The massive brooding Heath, as has been so frequently remarked, dominates the story and there is something awesome, magical, inhuman in its Titanic presence.
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Musselwhite, D. (2003). The Interrupted Return. In: Social Transformations in Hardy’s Tragic Novels. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504523_2
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