THE THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATION
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
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PETER LANIGAN'S ENG LIT PAGE
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/students/ug/pjl/literature.html [NOW CLOSED]
Contact: Peter Lanigan
Date: 01/18/99
A four-page essay on Thomas Hardy's novels, with ten footnotes
and a six-item bibliography.
COMMENT:
A naive and rambling undergraduate paper on fate and sympathy in
Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree, The Mayor of
Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure. It is replete
with banal observations expressed in confusing syntax and
punctuation, such as in this example: [Jude's] position in the
world, as an intelligent boy from a poor background prevents his
entry into Christminster (Oxford) University, is an example of
the world's faceless and impersonal disregard for him and his
ambitions and desires.