British writer Thomas Hardy organizes all his major novels in south and southwest England. He named the area "Wessex " after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of the country prior to the unification of England by ÃÆ' â € thelstan. Although the places that appear in his novels do exist, in many cases he gives the place a fictitious name. For example, Hardy's hometown of Dorchester is called Casterbridge in his book, especially at The Mayor of Casterbridge . In 1895 the introduction to the Far From the Madding Crowd novel he described Wessex as a "realistic dream state" .
The actual definition of "Hardy's Wessex" varies greatly throughout Hardy's career, and is not completely settled until he retires from writing a novel. When he created the fictive Wessex concept, it consisted only of a small area of ​​Dorset where Hardy was raised; at the time he wrote the Jude the Obscure, the boundaries have been extended to cover all Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire, many from Berkshire, and some Oxfordshire, with the most north-eastern point being Oxford ( renamed "Christminster" in the novel). Cornwall is also called but named "Off Wessex". Similarly, the nature and meaning of the idea "Wessex" was developed through a series of long novels through a long period of time. Wessex's ideas play an important artistic role in Hardy's works (especially later novels), helping to present themes of progress, primitivism, sexuality, religion, nature and naturalism; However, this was complicated by the economic role that Wessex played in Hardy's career. Considering himself primarily to be a poet, Hardy often writes novels to earn money. The books that can be marketed under the Hardy brand of the "Wessex novel" are highly favorable, which gives rise to a sentimental, beautiful, Wessex populist outlook - which, glimpsed through most of the tours in the southwest will reveal, remains popular among today's consumers.
The rise of Hardy from the name "Wessex" is largely responsible for the popular modern use of the term to describe the southwestern region of England (with the exception of Cornwall and Devon arguably); today, the organization's complete weaponry takes their name from Hardy to describe their relationship to the area. Hardy's conception of Wessex as a separate and cohesive political and geographical identity has proved powerful, despite the fact that it was originally created purely as artistic arrogance, and has spawned lucrative tourist trade, and even the Wessex Regionalist devolution.
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(Note: The Isle of Wight, though today a separate administrative region, is considered part of the county of Hampshire - and thus Upper Wessex - during Thomas Hardy's lifetime.Likewise, Alfredston (Wantage) and the surrounding area of ​​North Wessex are part from Berkshire before the 1974 border change but now located in Oxfordshire).
Outer Wessex kadang-kadang disebut sebagai Nether Wessex.
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Singkatan untuk novel Thomas Hardy yang digunakan dalam tabel adalah sebagai berikut:
- UtGT - Di bawah Pohon Greenwood (1872)
- PoBE - Sepasang Mata Biru (1873)
- FftMC - Jauh dari Madding Crowd (1874)
- RotN - Kembalinya Native (1878)
- TM - The Trumpet-Major (1880)
- ToaT - Dua di Menara (1882)
- MoC - Walikota Casterbridge (1886)
- W - The Woodlanders (1887)
- WT - Wessex Tales (1888)
- TotD - Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
- JtO - Jude the Obscure (1895)
- WP - Wessex Puisi dan Ayat Lainnya (1898)
Daftar nama tempat Wessex, tempat mereka yang sebenarnya, dan penampilan mereka dalam novel-novel Hardy
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Artists like Walter Tyndale, Edmund Hort New, Charles George Harper and others, have painted or drawn the sights, places, and buildings depicted in Hardy's novels. Their work is used to illustrate books exploring real-life countryside where Wessex's fictional area is based:
- B. C. A. Windle & amp; E. H. New (ill). The Wessex of Thomas Hardy (London, New York, J. Lane, 1902).
- Charles G. Harper. Country Hardy; literary landmarks of Wessex novel (London, A. & amp; C. Black, 1904).
- Clive Holland. Wessex (A & amp; C Black, 1906).
- Sidney Heath. The Heart of Wessex (Blackie & Son, 1910?).
- Charles G. Harper. Wessex ("Beautiful Britain", London: A. & amp; C. Black, 1911).
- R. Thurston Hopkins & amp; E. Harries (pain.). Thomas Hardy's Dorset (New York: D. Appleton and co 1922).
- Hermann Lea. Thomas Hardy's Wessex (London, Macmillan and co. 1911).
- Ralph Pite, Hardy Geography: Wessex and regional novels . Palgrave, 2002.
- Andrew D. Radford, Plays the novel Wessex: landscape, history, and parish literature in England, 1870-1940. (London; New York: Continuum International Pub., 2010.
- Walter Tyndale. Hardy country water-colors (A & amp; C Black, 19 ??).
- Barry J Cade. Thomas Hardy's Location (Casterbridge Publishing Limited 2015) A colorful tour guide to where Hardy's thoughts were when he wrote "Mayor of Casterbridge" and "Far from Madding Crowd."
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External links
- Thomas Hardy Wessex Research Site, including a map, by Dr. Birgit Plietzsch
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