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A TRANSMISSIVE MEDIUM: ATMOSPHERE IN HARDY’S NOVELS
Ist Teil von
Thomas Hardy journal, 2016-10, Vol.32, p.11-28
Ort / Verlag
Dorset: Thomas Hardy Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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Literature Online (LION)
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[...]we can bring this simultaneous interest in traditional 'prognosticks' and modern 'forecasting', in the mode that Forster inaugurated and that Admiral Robert FitzRoy made popular, closer to Hardy. [...]in 1861, Fitzroy began his daily weather forecasts - forecasts, not reports - for the Times. [...]a busy picture can be painted by a journalist for Once a Week, in 1863: The farmer's income was ruled by the wheat-crop within his own horizon, and the wheat-crop by the weather. [...]in person, he became a sort of flesh-barometer, with feelers always directed to the sky and wind around him. [...]in its idiosyncratic way, the little scene concentrates just what produces Hardy's atmospheric writing, the meeting of new and old, the literary with the vernacular, the scientific with the customary. [...]the Greenhill sheep fair, with its traditional circus entertainment, sees Bathsheba entering the show-tent to find herself, seated alone in a reserved seat, the object of 'many eyes ... turned upon her' (402):16 The interior was shadowy with a peculiar shade. A bird searching for worms in the mould of the flower-beds sounded like her hand on the latch of the gate; and at dusk, when soft strange ventriloquisms came from holes in the ground, hollow stalks, curled dead leaves, and other crannies wherein breezes, worms, and insects can work their will, he fancied that they were Eustacia standing without and breathing wishes of reconciliation.