The children's outstanding, "pathognomonic," fundamentaldisorder, Kanner concludes, is a failure to develop the usual amount of socialawareness and an "inability to relate in the ordinary way to people and situations." This is displayed in the children's seeming lack of social "interest," in...
a competition which ultimately defeats Tess. But rather than just the means for her tragic failure and the site of her victimhood, the road also provides the means by which Hardy provides an alternative to Victorian dominance of femininity and sexuality...
In contrast to assessments that reduce Haggard's domestic fictions to anomaly, failure, or generic hybridity (See Richardson 55), I find that Mr. Meeson's Will illustrates how tales of the colonies are supplemental infrastructure for domestic realisms, in much that same...