“Ride and Tie”: Looking at Horses in the English Novel through Posthuman Eyes by Sinan AKILLI

“…Then, from a posthumanist critical position it discusses and illustrates the “narrative agency” of living horses with reference to Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews (1742), Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818), Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1848), and that of dead horses in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891).…”
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Sexual Science as Manifested in Hardy's Marriage Plot by Ahmad, Asma Hana

“…Darwin' s theory is investigated through the creative works of Thomas Hardy. The novels chosen for discussion are from the Wessex novels. …”
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Forms of unknowing in Victorian poetry by McGhee, F

“…My final chapter explores Thomas Hardy’s attention to the difficulties of knowing (and being known by) other people, showing how more fruitful modes of engagement may depend upon relinquishing the desire for secure knowledge.…”

Desperate remedies and vital lies: art, literature, and escapism, 1840-1914 by Daniels, HG

“…This thesis uncovers a specifically ambivalent escapist tradition across genres in the writing of the art and social critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and the memoirist and man of letters Edmund Gosse (1849-1928). …”

Hardy’s Sue and her failure in the mirror of foucauldian concept of individuality by Pedram Lalbakhsh, Nasser Maleki, Nahid Jamshidi Rad

“…The paper is a study of Thomas Hardy’s female character, Sue, in Jude the Obscure. …”
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Looking and perception in nineteenth century poetry by Maxwell, C, Catherine Maxwell

“…</p> <p>Chapter I examines Shelley's 'On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery'; Chapter II deals with portraiture in Browning's 'My Last Duchess' and Rossetti's The Portrait'; Chapter III turns to the sculpture of the hermaphrodite in Swinburne's early lyric 'Hermaphroditus'; Chapter IV looks at Thomas Hardy's poems about sketches and shades; Chapter V is an epilogue in which the work of Walter Pater draws together the ideas developed in the rest of the thesis.…”

Reading the gallery: portraits and texts in the mid- to late nineteenth century by Hook, S

“…By focussing on the work of Edmund Gosse, Walter Pater, Thomas Hardy, and Vernon Lee, the thesis forms a 'gallery' of nineteenth-century tastemakers, each of whom looked to the democratic art of portraiture to reflect upon their literary art. …”

Iron times and golden ages: nostalgia and the Mid-Victorian historical novel by Cassidy, CM

“…The thesis concludes with a coda looking forward to later nineteenth-century uses of nostalgia in historical fiction through a reading of Thomas Hardy’s <em>The Trumpet Major</em> (1880) and <em>The Mayor of Casterbridge</em> (1886).…”

Cancer Screening and Prevention in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Community and Asian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Members by Carolee Polek, Thomas Hardie

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In Asian americans, is having a family member diagnosed with cancer associated with fatalistic beliefs? by Carolee Polek, Thomas Hardie

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