HARDY AND <i>THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY</i>

Ingham, Patricia Clare

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“…11 There are compelling similarities between the 'Retrospect' of geological time which Mantell elucidates after a lecture on the South-East of England and the passage quoted above from A Pair of Blue Eyes, as Ingham points out. 12 The 'huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the mylodon' (all of which are herbivorous) in Hardy's text are like the 'groups of elephants, mastodons, and other herbivorous animals of colossal magnitude' in Mantell's 'Retrospect'. 13 So too are the 'sinister crocodilian outlines […] culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon' very similar to Mantell's description of the 'Country of the Iguanodon' (448), a dinosaur he had discovered and named.…”

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Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination

Buckland¹

2008

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Victorian geology was 'a ubiquitous and emblematic science', and it was characterised perhaps more than any other Victorian science by its vibrant material culture. 1 Though literary criticism has almost exclusively focused on nineteenth-century geology's production of 'narratives' of the history of the earth (in the shape of 'progression', 'uniformitarianism', 'catastrophism' and 'evolution', for example), in fact historians of science have demonstrated that the 'central business' of the science for its elite practitioners was not the formulation of laws of change or causation, but stratigraphy, the determination of the order and structure of the layers of rocks and fossils beneath the earth's surface. 2 This project was rooted in the material objects of the science, often guided by the need to accurately predict the locations of lucrative coal-bearing and other mineral-rich sections of the strata. Furthermore, not only did the Geological Survey (f. 1835) direct important attention and resources to the practices of surveying and mapping, but in the early-to-mid-nineteenth-century the science was also integrally associated with palaeontology, and with the building of museums, collections, and exhibitions. It was in its focus on the material structure of the earth, rather than on its story, that geologists most radically reconfigured the Victorians' apprehension of their position within time and space.Given the intimate interrelationship between the history of evolutionary thought and the history of geology, it is perhaps unsurprising that literary critics have often considered geology using tools of analysis largely drawn from such influential studies of evolutionary biology and the novel as Gillian Beer's Darwin's Plots (1983) and George Levine's Darwin and the Novelists (1988). Beer and Levine's considerations of the ways in which literary narratives may have reflected, or drawn upon, or extended, or disconfirmed the shapes and structures of the world described by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species (1859), while appropriate to the study of evolutionary science, occludes many of the key differences between geology and evolutionary biology in this period. While Levine, Beer, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan Smith, and a host of other critics focus on the narratives of earth history geology may have contributed to

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Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination

Buckland¹

2008

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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“…Imaginaries of earthly histories of a much greater power than humanity possesses have also provoked art – particularly poetry. For example, the work of the Romantic poets and of later writers like Thomas Hardy is associated with geological language and pondering (Ingham, ; Schweik, ; Wyatt, ), particularly on the subject of time – humans are synchronic entities, but poetry, like art, is diachronic: it speaks across time. The earth is provocative for the arts as much as for science (Dixon et al., ).…”

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Sublime encounters: Commodifying the experience of the geos

Donovan

2018

Geography and Environment

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This paper discusses the rise in volcano tourism in the last few decades, focusing on its impact in recent eruptive crises in Iceland. The paper uses evidence from ethnographic research and surveys to argue that two divergent economic narratives come into conflict around volcanoes: the problematisation of the earth as potentially risky, and the elevation of those risky behaviours as something worth commodifying. Icelandic civil protection (Almannavarnir) have increasingly become concerned about the behaviour of tourists around active volcanoes, particularly during eruptions. However, this is also a considerable opportunity for tour groups. During the 2014–2015 eruptions at Holuhraun, there was concern about high levels of gas that were being emitted, and so tourists were banned from the site. This led to clandestine efforts to get in by helicopter after dark. The felt need for these experiences can be traced back at least to the Enlightenment period, and denotes an example of affective commodification, as the sublime encounter between humans and raw energy of the earth is rendered valuable in monetary terms – and yet transcends commodification in a simple sense.

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THE WELL-BELOVED: THOMAS HARDY'S MANIFESTO OF “REGIONAL AESTHETICS”

Bezrucka

2008

Victorian Literature and Culture

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The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved was first published in serial instalments (from 1 October to 17 December1892) with illustrations by Water Paget; see Figure 6) in the Illustrated London News and were published simultaneously with the same title in the American magazine Harper's Bazar. It then appeared in book form, with substantial revisions, as The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament in 1897, and was, in fact, the last of Hardy's novels to appear (Jude the Obscure being published in 1895).

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HARDY AND THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY

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Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination

Thomas Hardy, Provincial Geology and the Material Imagination

Sublime encounters: Commodifying the experience of the geos

THE WELL-BELOVED: THOMAS HARDY'S MANIFESTO OF “REGIONAL AESTHETICS”

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