In The Woodlanders, Hardy examines the intersections between adolescence as scientific fact and adolescence as utilitarian economic construction. Hardy posits that the emergence of adolescence as a social category provides an opportunity for further, excessive control of young women in a patriarchal society when science is taken at its word, but, paradoxically, also opens up a space for a new kind of freedom and rebellion when the adolescent condition of nineteenth-century scientific theorists is seized for the very subversive qualities which the Victorians oppose.

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托马斯·哈代的《林地人》中的青少年状况

在《林地人》中，哈代考察了作为科学事实的青春期和作为功利主义经济建设的青春期之间的交叉点。哈代认为，青春期作为一个社会类别的出现为在父权社会中进一步过度控制年轻女性提供了机会，但矛盾的是，它也为一种新的自由和自由开辟了空间。当 19 世纪科学理论家的青春期状态因维多利亚时代所反对的非常颠覆性的品质而被抓住时，反叛。