Folklore, Thomas Hardy, and Rural Writing: a joint conference of The
Folklore Society and the Thomas Hardy Society
Friday 11 April to Sunday 13 April 2014
at The Corn Exchange, Dorchester, Dorset, UK
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Presentations include: Jeremy Harte: "Wide-Oh and the Toad Man:
Cunning men in Dorset and Hardy;" Jerry Bird: "Mumming and Poverty in
Hardy's Wessex;" Jacqueline Dillion: "Ways of Knowing in Tess of the
d'Urbervilles;" Paul Cowdell: "What Victorian Peasantry? The
surprising class warriors of English folk song scholarship;" Dai
Hawkins: "Folklore in the Novels of Mary Webb;" Heather Hawkins:
"Folklore and Belief in Thomas Hardy's Poetry;" Mark Norman:
"Cockstrides and Carriages--Parallels of Thomas Hardy's Dorset ghosts
in the wider westcountry landscape;" Peter Robson: "Fiction, Folklore
and Reconstruction--Thomas Hardy's Play of St George"
Tickets: £45 in advance (£55 on door)
Day rates available
Coffee and tea between sessions will be provided, but no meals.
Conference participants must book their own accommodation. A list of
suggested hotels is available.
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