"Notes on contributorsPrefaceA chronology of Hardys life and PublicationsList of abbreviations and texts1 Thomas Hardy: the biographical sources2 Wessex3 Art and aesthetics4 The influence of religion, science, and philosophy on Hardys writings5 Hardy and critical theory6 Thomas Hardy and matters of gender7 Variants on genre: The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbirdge, The Hand of Ethelberta8 The patriarchy of class: Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders9 The radical aesthetic of Tess of the dUrbervilles10 Hardy and readers: Jude the Obscure11 Hardy as a nineteenth-century poet12 The modernity of Thomas Hardys poetryIndex"
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