![]() Indeed, the Empire’s main intrusion into the plot is the sub-narrative of Arabella’s emigration to Australia. This is notable in that the book was written during what has been called the height of Empire, when imperial expansion was driving drastic shifts in British society, among them large-scale emigration. Ancient Rome pervades the novel, from its lived traces in the landscape to its cultural legacies, 1 while by contrast the British Empire is acknowledged only in passing. British Library online collection, ref: Digital Store 012624.h.25/8Įmpire is everywhere in Jude the Obscure, but it is the Roman and not the British one. ![]() Illustration on the title page of Jude the Obscure ( Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896). Macbeth-Raeburn - ‘The “Christminster” of the Story’. ![]()
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