![]() ![]() ![]() Which man, if any, will she choose? It might be the pitch for a contemporary rom-com, and it is telling how smoothly Bathsheba became Tamara Drewe in Posy Simmonds’ brilliant retelling, cutting a swath through the men of a modern Cotswold village.īut then Bathsheba Everdene has always seemed ahead of her time. A proudly independent woman encounters three men, each representing domesticity, status and sex. Madding Crowd was published in 1874.Įven the premise of the book seems modern. This notion, that a language constructed by men might be inadequate to express female emotion, seems straight out of contemporary feminist theory. Rereading Far from the Madding Crowd, there were many times I found myself brought up short. ![]() ‘It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.’ ![]()
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