TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jȩdrzejewski,Jan
TI  - Thomas Hardy and the Church
SN  - 9780230378278
AV  - PN760.5-PN769 
U1  - 809.034 23
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint, Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Literature
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - British literature
KW  - Littérature
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Roman
KW  - Littérature britannique
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
N2  - Thomas Hardy and the Church traces the development of Hardy's attitude towards Christianity. Through an analysis, firmly rooted in documentary evidence, of his use of the motifs of church architecture, religious ritual, and the characters of clergymen, Jan Jedrzejewski argues that the tension between Hardy's emotional attachment to the Christian tradition and his inability to accept its ontological essence generated a response to Christianity that was complex, often ambiguous, and by no means uniformly critical
ER  -