Jude the Obscure

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Jude the Obscure is a bleak Victorian novel by Thomas Hardy that follows the tragic life and thwarted ambitions of a working-class man striving for education and social mobility.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Victorian novel
novel
tragic novel
adaptation 1969 film adaptation
1971 BBC television serial
1996 film "Jude"
author Thomas Hardy
centralConflict individual aspirations versus social constraints
ChristminsterRepresents Oxford
controversy perceived immorality on publication
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresFictionalPlace Christminster
firstEditionPublisher Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.
firstPublicationMedium Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
surface form: Harper's New Monthly Magazine

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firstPublishedAs serial
genre realist novel
social novel
tragedy
influenced debates on marriage reform
later modernist writers
literaryMovement naturalism
realism
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
mainCharacter Arabella Donn
Jude Fawley
Richard Phillotson
Sue Bridehead
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor bleak tone
critique of Victorian marriage laws
critique of class barriers in education
originalLanguage English
partOf Thomas Hardy's major novels
positionInAuthorCareer last completed novel by Thomas Hardy
protagonist Jude Fawley
protagonistAmbition social advancement
university education
protagonistSocialClass working class
publicationYear 1895
reactionOnPublication hostile reviews from conservative critics
settingCountry England
settingPeriod late 19th century
theme class
education
fatalism
marriage
religion
sexual morality
social mobility

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Thomas Hardy notableWork Jude the Obscure
Ian Charleson notableWork Jude the Obscure
Wessex (fictional region) usedIn Jude the Obscure