Pater and the genealogy of Hardy's modernity.
| Publisher | Rice University |
| Publication | Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0039-3657 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Published | 2006-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Works | Thomas Hardy |
| Author | n/a | Uttara Natarajan |
| Person | Works | Walter Horatio Pater |
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The impact of Walter Pater on Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native has scarcely yet been acknowledged, although Pater's Studies in the History of the Renaissance has now and then been mentioned in connection with the novel. David J. DeLaura notes that "|b]y 1878, when he published The Return of the Native, Hardy had already worked into the fabric of his thought and of his fiction the description of the modern condition offered by Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater in their most 'Hellenic' periods." Yet, while DeLaura discusses in detail Arnold's centrality to Hardy's "anatomy of the...
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