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‘'Market-Faces’ and Market Forces: [Corn-]Factors in the Moral Economy of Casterbridge’

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Review of English Studies, Volume: 59, Issue: 240, Pages: 426 - 448

Swansea University Author: Michael Franklin Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/res/hgm086

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Questions of appropriate behaviour, mercantile integrity and market forcesreverberate throughout Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. This articleattempts to analyse the ‘corn factor’: both the wife- selling self-destructive ‘hero’,and the ubiquitous presence of grain. Integral to almost every...

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Published: Review of English Studies 2008
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description Questions of appropriate behaviour, mercantile integrity and market forcesreverberate throughout Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. This articleattempts to analyse the ‘corn factor’: both the wife- selling self-destructive ‘hero’,and the ubiquitous presence of grain. Integral to almost every con£ict or crisis inthe creation, continuation or destruction of human bonds within the novel is theconsumption or exchange of seeds, grain or the products and goods made fromthem. In tracing a path from furmity to skimmity, the article examines whatHardy reveals concerning the impossibility of restoring what has been spoiled.Concepts from the disciplines of political history and economic sociology, such asE. P. Thompson’s notion of ‘the moral economy’, or Mark Granovetter’s constructof ‘the strength of weak ties’, are applied to this market town to demonstrate thatbread is simultaneously a staple and a symbol of what binds individuals andfamilies together in society.
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