Till Death Did Him Part: Thomas Hardy and His Funerals: Special issue of EJLW: "Life Writing & Death: Dialogues of the Dead"

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Abstract

This essay considers Hardy’s two funerals—for his ashes at Poets’ Corner, for his heart at Stinsford—in the light of their consequences for life-writing: the absence of a single resting-place, and the narrative demands of synchronicity in telling of two funerals. This division of the body was the consequence of an extraordinary lack of precision in Hardy’s own will, the composition, wording and interpretation of which are examined here in some detail. Attention is also paid to the single grave at Stinsford that holds the remains of Hardy and both his wives in diverse modalities of the invisible.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Life Writing
Volume9
Pages (from-to)132-150
Number of pages19
ISSN2211-243X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2020

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities

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