A Companion to Thomas Hardy

✍ Scribed by Keith Wilson (ed.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 495
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Content:
Chapter 1 Hardy as Biographical Subject (pages 5–18): Michael Millgate
Chapter 2 Hardy and Philosophy (pages 19–35): Phillip Mallett
Chapter 3 Hardy and Darwin: An Enchanting Hardy? (pages 36–53): George Levine
Chapter 4 Hardy and the Place of Culture (pages 54–70): Angelique Richardson
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
Chapter 6 Thomas Hardy's Notebooks (pages 86–101): William Greenslade
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
Chapter 8 Hardy and his Critics: Gender in the Interstices (pages 117–129): Margaret R. Higonnet
Chapter 9 “His Country”: Hardy in the Rural (pages 131–145): Ralph Pite
Chapter 10 Thomas Hardy of London (pages 146–161): Keith Wilson
Chapter 11 “A Thickness of Wall”: Hardy and Class (pages 162–177): Roger Ebbatson
Chapter 12 Reading Hardy through Dress: The Case of Far From the Madding Crowd (pages 178–193): Simon Gatrell
Chapter 13 Hardy and Romantic Love (pages 194–209): Michael Irwin
Chapter 14 Hardy and the Visual Arts (pages 210–222): J. B. Bullen
Chapter 15 Hardy and Music: Uncanny Sounds (pages 223–238): Claire Seymour
Chapter 16 The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd (pages 239–253): Stephen Regan
Chapter 17 “Wild Regions of Obscurity”: Narrative in The Return of the Native (pages 254–266): Penny Boumelha
Chapter 18 Hardy's “Novels of Ingenuity” (pages 267–280): Mary Rimmer
Chapter 19 Hardy's “Romances and Fantasies” (pages 281–298): Jane Thomas
Chapter 20 The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge (pages 299–312): Julian Wolfreys
Chapter 21 Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders (pages 313–327): Andrew Radford
Chapter 22 Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (pages 328–344): Tim Dolin
Chapter 23 Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex (pages 345–363): Dennis Taylor
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
Chapter 25 Sequence and Series in Hardy's Poetry (pages 378–394): Tim Armstrong
Chapter 26 Hardy's Poems: The Scholarly Situation (pages 395–412): William W. Morgan
Chapter 27 That's Show Business: Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts (pages 413–430): G. Glen Wickens
Chapter 28 Modernist Hardy: Hand?Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge (pages 431–449): J. Hillis Miller
Chapter 29 Inhibiting the Voice: Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics (pages 450–464): Charles Lock
Chapter 30 Hardy's Heirs: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys (pages 465–478): Terry R. Wright