A Companion to Thomas Hardy

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Abbreviations.

Introduction.

Part I The Life.

1 Hardy as Biographical Subject.

Michael Millgate.

Part II The Intellectual Context.

2 Hardy and Philosophy.

Phillip Mallett.

3 Hardy and Darwin: An Enchanting Hardy?.

George Levine.

4 Hardy and the Place of Culture.

Angelique Richardson.

5 "The Hard Case of the Would-be-Religious":.

Hardy and the Church from Early Life to Later Years.

Pamela Dalziel.

6 Thomas Hardy's Notebooks.

William Greenslade.

7 "Genres are not to be mixed. . . . I will not mix them":.

Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy's Fiction.

Richard Nemesvari.

8 Hardy and His Critics: Gender in the Interstices.

Margaret R. Higonnet.

Part III The Socio-Cultural Context.

9 "His Country": Hardy in the Rural.

Ralph Pite.

10 Thomas Hardy of London.

Keith Wilson.

11 "A Thickness of Wall": Hardy and Class.

Roger Ebbatson.

12 Reading Hardy through Dress: the Case of Far From the Madding Crowd.

Simon Gatrell.

13 Hardy and Romantic Love.

Michael Irwin.

14 Hardy and the Visual Arts J. B. Bullen.

15 Hardy and Music Claire Seymour.

Part IV The Works.

16 The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd.

Stephen Regan.

17 "Wild Regions of Obscurity": Narrative in The Return of the Native.

Penny Boumelha.

18 Hardy's "Novels of Ingenuity": Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A Laodicean:.

Rare Hands at Contrivances.

Mary Rimmer.

19 Hardy's "Romances and Fantasies": A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet-Major,.

Two on a Tower, and The Well-Beloved: Experiments in Metafiction.

Jane Thomas.

20 The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Julian Wolfreys.

21 Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders.

Andrew Radford.

22 Melodrama, Vision and Modernity: Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Tim Dolin.

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Keith Wilson is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Thomas Hardy on Stage (1995), editor of the Penguin Classics editions of The Mayor of Casterbridge (1997; 2003)and The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories (2003, with Kristin Brady), and editor of Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate (2006). He has also published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, Victorian and Edwardian music hall, and the literary representation of London.

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