Far from the Madding Crowd

References in popular culture

Anime

Music

  • British musician Paul McCartney, included the lyric "When I fly above the Maddening Crowd" on the song "3 Legs" from his 1971 release Ram.
  • British musician Nick Bracegirdle, better known as Chicane, released Far from the Maddening Crowds, a studio album, in 1997.
  • In 2000, the New York rock band Nine Days titled their debut The Madding Crowd to express their allegiance to modernity in opposition to Hardy.[25]
  • The Danish metal band Wuthering Heights released a studio album titled Far From the Madding Crowd in 2004.
  • Nanci Griffith included the lyric "You're a Saturday night, Far from the madding crowd" in the song On Grafton Street on her 1994 release Flyer.
  • Róisín Murphy included the lyric "Far from the madding crowd, something's stirring within me" in the song Jealousy on her 2020 release Róisín Machine.

Literature

  • The city of Far Madding in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels is named after Hardy's book.
  • The heroine of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series, Katniss Everdeen, gets her last name from Bathsheba Everdene.

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