Far From The Madding Crowd - References in Popular Culture

References in Popular Culture

• The Danish metal band Wuthering Heights released an album, Far from the Madding Crowd, named after the novel.
• British musician Nick Bracegirdle, better known as Chicane, released Far from the Maddening Crowds, an album similarly named after the novel.
• New York rock band Nine Days' songs were often situated in the modernity that Hardy criticized; hence the group titled their 2000 debut album The Madding Crowd in reference.
• Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum wrote a book, Far from the Madding Gerund.
• Katniss Everdeen, the main character of the novel The Hunger Games, was so named as a tribute to Bathsheba, according to author Suzanne Collins. There are vague parallels between Katniss's romantic relationships and Bathsheba's, and their ultimate conclusions about good marriages are the same.
• The fantasy series The Wheel of Time contains a city named Far Madding.