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Food as the Representation of Idyllic Landscape of Victorian World in the Novels by Thomas Hardy

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Buda A.

CLEaR

2016

vol. 3

issue 1

47-51

The aim of the paper is to analyse the idea of cooking/eating in two novels by Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure and Tess d’Urbervilles. Both works present the idea of food as one of the major points of reference in human relationships. One of the aspects worth analysing is eating as one of the most crucial primary needs. Another one is family eating. The meetings are preceded by careful preparation of meals (e.g. Sunday preparations in Arabella’s house or cooking in the house of the Crick family). The food often becomes the major topic during these meetings, showing in this way the idyllic character of family eating: the looks of dining rooms and kitchens are essential as well as the possibility of talking to each other while eating. This idyllic space of collective eating (according to M. Bakhtin) can be frequently destroyed by social conventions; when Tess was rejected by society, she used to eat alone and did not take care of what she eats. Both novels explore the idea of food making it important for the creation of an idyll.

Darwinian Obsessions: References to the Theory of Evolution in the Novels of John Fowles, A. S. Byatt, and Hilary Mantel

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Oramus D.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

2012

issue 21/1

5-16

This paper challenges the critical cliché that in recent fiction Darwinism replaces religion and that the scientific worldview is always in opposition to Christian belief. A close reading of three British novels written between the late 1960s and the early 1990s – namely, John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman, A.S. Byatt’s Morpho Eugenia (a short novel published together with her other novelette Conjugal Angel in the volume entitled Angels and Insects), and Hilary Mantel’s A Change of Climate demonstrates how Darwinian references themselves evolve over time. Three aspects of the novels are juxtaposed: primarily, the way they depict natural history in the 19th century – Darwin and his fellow naturalists – and thus create the myth of how modern science was born in Victorian England. Secondly, the paper establishes what the novelists in question understand by the word ‘science’ and whether for them natural science is or is not science proper. Thirdly and lastly, what is the novelists’ attitude to the alleged conflict between Christian belief and the theory of evolution. In the quarter century dividing Fowles’s novel from Mantel’s much changes in the way each of these problems is handled.

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Darwinian Obsessions: References to the Theory of Evolution in the Novels of John Fowles, A. S. Byatt, and Hilary Mantel