[Hardy-l] Fwd: [Ttha-potm] Fw : "The Fellow-Townsman" Question

[Betty Cortus]

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Thanks,
Betty

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> From: Nathalie Ba <tallyba at yahoo.fr>
> Date: July 9, 2008 3:46:32 AM PDT
> To: ttha-potm at coyote.csusm.edu
> Subject: [Ttha-potm] Fw :
> Reply-To: tallyba at yahoo.fr, ttha-potm at coyote.csusm.edu
>
> Dear members,
>
>
> "Fellow-Townsmen" was written in 1880 and Barthelemy published his  
> book in 1888. Evidence is that Hardy was not influenced by The  
> Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece. So the question is :   
> why did he use italics if not to signal that he was borrowing  
> material from another writer? And if there still  was such writer,  
> who could he\she be?
>
> - En date de : Mer 9.7.08, Nathalie Ba <tallyba at yahoo.fr> a écrit :
>
> De: Nathalie Ba <tallyba at yahoo.fr>
> Objet:
> À: ttha-potm at coyote.csusm.edu
> Date: Mercredi 9 Juillet 2008, 12h35
>
> Dear members,
>
>
>  In one of his short stories, "Fellow-Townsmen" (Wessex Tales),  
> Hardy's narrator speaks of la politesse du coeur  (the expression  
> is in French and it is italicized). I looked for the original  
> writer responsible for the expression. It is "Jean Jacques  
> Barthelemy (1716-95), a highly esteemed classical scholar and  
> Jesuit, who published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in  
> Greece" (I quote from wikipedia). Hardy must have read Barthelemy's  
> book although I can find no reference to it in his literary notes,  
> autobiography or even letters.
>
>
> Can anyone be of some help?
>
>
> Thank you a lot in advance!
>
>
> Nathalie.
>
>
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