[hardy-l] A Modern Jude

[Joan sheski]

Angelique, I think Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man might qualify.

Joan Sheski

From: A.Richardson at exeter.ac.uk
To: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 23:35:33 +0100
Subject: [hardy-l] A Modern Jude








Dear Hardy list
 

I wonder if any of you can assist me.  I am venturing into the terra rather incognita (for me) of contemporary fiction, and while I shall be back with the Victorians soon enough, I should be most grateful to hear
 from anyone with expertise and competence in this century or the end of the last one.  I am looking for a modern
Jude the Obscure.  Someone, ideally in a novel, who is of humble origins, notably talented,  and continuously thwarted by their environment.  Or, alternatively, someone who is talented, of humble origins, and not thwarted by their environment.
 
All responses gratefully received, 

 
Angelique
 

Dr Angelique Richardson  http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/english/content/view/227/3/
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