[Hardy-l] The grotesque in Hardy

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Hello Jacky -- good to know you are thriving -- we've missed your bright 
spark!

I'm wondering if it might be helpful to the group to know which aspect of 
the grotesque you are most interested in.

Would it be the decorative ? plaster or wood moldings,  or freaks 
and  masks, or the half-human, the fantastic, characters who induce empathy 
and disgust. (villains mostly) the physically deformed, mentally deficient, 
cringe-worthy? (Little Father Time?) or the implausibly strange -- or 
perhaps it is the genre of anti-naturalism?  Absurdism?

It's such a huge area -- Would help if we knew your focus?


  Besties
  Rosemarie

>planning a chapter on the grotesque in Hardy's novels and I wondered if the
>group's expert knowledge might help me with this. I have already explored
>the history of the grotesque mode in architecture, art and literature in my
>previous studies and thus am familiar
>      Jacky Wilkinson