Download or read book Social Transformations in Hardy's Tragic Novels written by D. Musselwhite and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the theoretical work of Deleuze and Guattari and that of Jean Laplanche - particularly his major and as yet still relatively unfamiliar notion of the phantasme - Social Formation in Hardy's Major Novels is an original and groundbreaking rereading of Hardy's four major tragic novels. The readings are sophisticated and yet accessible. The theoretical work is complemented by the use of new and hitherto unregarded major empirical findings that reveal the very heart of Hardy's creative universe.