Paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure: The Possibility of Faith and Ethics in a Darwinian World by Marie Panter

“…This article aims at exploring Hardy’s representation of paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, in the light of Hardy’s Darwinism. While Hardy’s support of paganism has been much debated, the comparison between these two novels shows that everything tends towards an unambiguous praise of paganism, which appears as a possible alternative to Christianity. …”
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Les horizons de Thomas Hardy by Marianne Camus

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« Knocking on Mrs Grundy’s door with a bomb of dynamite » : peur(s) des femmes dans quelques New Woman novels des années 1893-1895 by Nathalie Saudo

“…Such a reading of these novels with a purpose throws a new light on Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, in which fear is pervasive and ambivalent.…”
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Thomas Hardy : une écriture paradoxale entre génération et dégradation entropique by Annie Escuret

“…If Joyce did manage to create new myths, in Jude the Obscure Hardy chose blasphemy. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) used Einstein’s ideas of space-time to coin the term « chronotope » to refer to his theory of the distinctive use of topology in particular genres of fiction. …”
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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…His penultimate long fiction Jude the Obscure was withdrawn from W. H. Smith circulating library due to the action of an outraged Bishop; this prompted Hardy to put an end to his career as a novelist. …”
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Excès et sacré dans la littérature victorienne et édouardienne by Annie Escuret

“…Unlike Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear who practised the art of controlled transgression, Hardy stands out as « Hardy the Degenerate » because he was bold enough to resort to blasphemy in his last novel Jude the Obscure. Trollope looks like a stable island but why such a massive production (as if he was trying to dam some gap) ? …”
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