Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Aaron Matz
Reader 2
Thomas Koenigs
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Abstract
This thesis investigates D.H. Lawrence’s idea of the “great background” in the context of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and how it reappears in a transformed way in Lawrence’s novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love. Through examining the perverse effects of modernism on these novels’ characters, this thesis argues that the “great background” is something that gradually moves inward––from the old, traditional “State” to an internal, inscrutable yet attainable reality.
Recommended Citation
Kim, Rochelle H., "The "Great Background" in Hardy and Lawrence" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 996.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/996
