The Adolescent Condition in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders
- 1 January 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in Literature and Medicine
- Vol. 35 (1), 46-70
- https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2017.0002
Abstract
In The Woodlanders, Hardy examines the intersections between adolescence as scientific fact and adolescence as utilitarian economic construction. Hardy posits that the emergence of adolescence as a social category provides an opportunity for further, excessive control of young women in a patriarchal society when science is taken at its word, but, paradoxically, also opens up a space for a new kind of freedom and rebellion when the adolescent condition of nineteenth-century scientific theorists is seized for the very subversive qualities which the Victorians oppose.Keywords
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