SOURCE: Plotz, John. “Motion Slickness: Spectacle and Circulation in Thomas Hardy's ‘On the Western Circuit.’” Studies in Short Fiction 33, no. 3 (summer 1996): 369-86.
In the following essay, Plotz explores the meaning of technical advances and machinery in Hardy's short fiction, particularly the steam roundabout in “On the Western Circuit.”
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