A Companion to Thomas Hardy

Copyright © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Thomas Hardy

Editor(s): Keith Wilson

Published Online: 29 JUN 2010

Print ISBN: 9781405156684

Online ISBN: 9781444324211

DOI: 10.1002/9781444324211

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Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry

  • Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars
  • Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy's major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama
  • Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for subsequent writers

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xiv)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–3)

      Keith Wilson

  3. Part I: The Life

    1. Chapter 1

      Hardy as Biographical Subject (pages 5–18)

      Michael Millgate

  4. Part II: The Intellectual Context

    1. Chapter 2

      Hardy and Philosophy (pages 19–35)

      Phillip Mallett

    2. Chapter 3

      Hardy and Darwin: An Enchanting Hardy? (pages 36–53)

      George Levine

    3. Chapter 4

      Hardy and the Place of Culture (pages 54–70)

      Angelique Richardson

    4. Chapter 5

      “The Hard Case of the Would-be-Religious”: Hardy and the Church from Early Life to Later Years (pages 71–85)

      Pamela Dalziel

    5. Chapter 6

      Thomas Hardy's Notebooks (pages 86–101)

      William Greenslade

    6. Chapter 7

      “Genres are not to be Mixed. … I will not Mix them”: Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy's Fiction (pages 102–116)

      Richard Nemesvari

    7. Chapter 8

      Hardy and his Critics: Gender in the Interstices (pages 117–129)

      Margaret R. Higonnet

  5. Part III: The Socio-Cultural Context

    1. Chapter 9

      “His Country”: Hardy in the Rural (pages 131–145)

      Ralph Pite

    2. Chapter 10

      Thomas Hardy of London (pages 146–161)

      Keith Wilson

    3. Chapter 11

      “A Thickness of Wall”: Hardy and Class (pages 162–177)

      Roger Ebbatson

    4. Chapter 12

      Reading Hardy through Dress: The Case of Far From the Madding Crowd (pages 178–193)

      Simon Gatrell

    5. Chapter 13

      Hardy and Romantic Love (pages 194–209)

      Michael Irwin

    6. Chapter 14

      Hardy and the Visual Arts (pages 210–222)

      J. B. Bullen

    7. Chapter 15

      Hardy and Music: Uncanny Sounds (pages 223–238)

      Claire Seymour

  6. Part IV: The Works

    1. Chapter 16

      The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd (pages 239–253)

      Stephen Regan

    2. Chapter 17

      “Wild Regions of Obscurity”: Narrative in The Return of the Native (pages 254–266)

      Penny Boumelha

    3. Chapter 18

      Hardy's “Novels of Ingenuity” (pages 267–280)

      Mary Rimmer

    4. Chapter 19

      Hardy's “Romances and Fantasies” (pages 281–298)

      Jane Thomas

    5. Chapter 20

      The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge (pages 299–312)

      Julian Wolfreys

    6. Chapter 21

      Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders (pages 313–327)

      Andrew Radford

    7. Chapter 22

      Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (pages 328–344)

      Tim Dolin

    8. Chapter 23

      Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex (pages 345–363)

      Dennis Taylor

    9. Chapter 24

      “… into the Hands of Pure-Minded English Girls”: Hardy's Short Stories and the Late Victorian Literary Marketplace (pages 364–377)

      Peter Widdowson

    10. Chapter 25

      Sequence and Series in Hardy's Poetry (pages 378–394)

      Tim Armstrong

    11. Chapter 26

      Hardy's Poems: The Scholarly Situation (pages 395–412)

      William W. Morgan

    12. Chapter 27

      That's Show Business: Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts (pages 413–430)

      G. Glen Wickens

  7. Part V: Hardy the Modern

    1. Chapter 28

      Modernist Hardy: Hand-Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge (pages 431–449)

      J. Hillis Miller

    2. Chapter 29

      Inhibiting the Voice: Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics (pages 450–464)

      Charles Lock

    3. Chapter 30

      Hardy's Heirs: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys (pages 465–478)

      Terry R. Wright

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      Index (pages 479–488)

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