Far from the Madding Crowd (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- First Published: 1874
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1869-1873
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nature, Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, Mental illness, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fate or fatalism, Shepherds
- Locales: Wessex, England
Places Discussed
Wessex. Imaginary English county in which this and other novels by Hardy are set. Wessex corresponds with the real county of Dorset in southwest England. More specifically, the story centers round the village of Weatherbury, events extending to the nearby town of Casterbridge, seven miles away.
Weatherbury. Typical English farming village in Wessex (modeled on Dorset’s Puddletown or Lower Longpuddle). The town’s parish church, in the graveyard of which Fanny and Troy are buried, dates from the fourteenth century. It has a tower in which are fixed the...
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