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- Title
A Perspective of One's Own: Thomas Hardy and the Elusive Sue Bridehead.
- Authors
Langland, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The article offers information on novelist Thomas Hardy's elusive character, Sue Bridehead. Topics discussed her attitude toward sex and marriage that provide the clearest measure of the distance separating from her ambitions and desires from social possibilities; image of her cohesive personality that her feelings about marriage and sex derive from a sense of her individuality and independence which seem to threatened by sexual or formal commitments.
- Subjects
HARDY, Thomas, 1840-1928; MARRIAGE in literature; SEXUAL attraction; FICTIONAL characters; INDIVIDUALITY; DESIRE
- Publication
Studies in the Novel, 2019, Vol 51, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0039-3827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sdn.2019.0008