The Well-Beloved with the Pursuit of the Well-BelovedWordsworth Editions, 2000 - Всего страниц: 327 Introduction and Notes by Jane Thomas, University of Hull. The Well-Beloved completes the cycle of Hardy's great novels, reiterating his favourite themes of man's eternal quest for perfection in both love and art, and the suffering that ensues. Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary Well-Beloved - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh. Powerful symbolism marks this romantic fantasy that Hardy has grounded firmly in reality with a characteristically authentic rendering of location, the Isle of Slingers, or Portland as we know it. Overt exploration of the relationship between erotic fascination and creativity makes this novel a nineteenth-century landmark in the persistent debate about art, aesthetics and gender. This volume breaks new ground by including in full the1892 serialised version of the novel - The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved. |
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Authors Preface | 3 |
A Supposititious Presentment of Her | 7 |
The Incarnation is Assumed to be True ΙΟ | 10 |
The Appointment | 15 |
A Lonely Pedestrian | 16 |
A Charge | 20 |
On the Brink | 24 |
Her Earlier Incarnations | 27 |
A Supposititious Presentment of Her | 165 |
The Incarnation is Assumed to be a True One | 168 |
The Lonely Pedestrian | 173 |
A Charge | 178 |
On the Brink | 182 |
Her Earlier Incarnations | 185 |
A Miscalculation | 189 |
Familiar Phenomena in the Distance | 194 |
Too Like the Lightning | 32 |
Familiar Phenomena in the Distance | 37 |
Part Second A YOUNG MAN OF FORTY | 41 |
The Old Phantom Becomes Distinct | 43 |
She Draws Close and Satisfies | 50 |
She Becomes an Inaccessible Ghost | 54 |
She Threatens to Resume Corporeal Substance | 60 |
The Resumption Takes Place | 64 |
The Past Shines in the Present | 66 |
The New Becomes Established | 72 |
His Own Soul Confronts Him | 77 |
Juxtapositions | 80 |
She Fails to Vanish Still | 86 |
The Image Persists | 90 |
A Grille Descends Between | 94 |
She is Enshrouded from Sight ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Part Third A YOUNG MAN OF SIXTY | 105 |
She Returns for the New Season | 107 |
Misgivings on the Reembodiment | 114 |
The Renewed Image Burns Itself In | 119 |
A Dash for the Last Incarnation | 124 |
On the Verge of Possession | 131 |
The WellBeloved is Where? | 137 |
An Old Tabernacle in a New Aspect | 146 |
Alas for This Grey Shadow Once a Man | 150 |
THE PURSUIT OF THE WELLBELOVED | 159 |
Part First A YOUNG MAN OF TWENTY | 161 |
Relics | 163 |
The Old Phantom becomes Distinct | 197 |
She Draws Close and Satisfies | 204 |
She Becomes an Inaccessible Ghost | 209 |
She Threatens to Resume Corporeal Substance | 217 |
The Resumption Takes Place | 220 |
The Past Shines in the Present | 223 |
The New Becomes Established | 228 |
His Own Soul Confronts Him | 233 |
Juxtapositions | 236 |
She Fails to Vanish When Closely Confronted | 241 |
A Homely Medium Does Not Dull the Image | 246 |
A Grille Descends between The Vision and Him | 250 |
She is Finally Enshrouded from Sight | 256 |
Part Third A YOUNG MAN OF FIFTYNINE | 261 |
She Returns for the New Season | 263 |
Misgivings on this Unexpected Reembodiment | 270 |
The Renewed Image Burns Itself In | 275 |
He Makes a Dash for the Last Incarnation | 280 |
He Desperately Clutches the Form | 285 |
He Possesses It Not | 290 |
The Elusiveness Continues | 294 |
He Becomes Retrogressive | 299 |
The Magnanimous Thing | 303 |
The Pursuit Abandoned | 307 |
He Becomes Aware of New Conditions | 313 |
Notes | 317 |