The Neglected Hardy: Thomas Hardy’s Lesser Novels

✍ Scribed by Richard H. Taylor (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
‘Well, that’s a rum story’: Desperate Remedies (1871)....Pages 6-28
Finding a method: A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)....Pages 29-55
‘The end of the happy endings’: The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)....Pages 56-75
Historical consciousness and pastoral irony: The Trumpet-Major (1880)....Pages 76-95
‘A man hit by vicissitudes’: A Laodicean (1881)....Pages 96-120
Life-loyalties: Two on a Tower (1882)....Pages 121-146
‘A fanciful exhibition of the artistic nature’: The Well-Beloved (1892, 1897)....Pages 147-173
Conclusion....Pages 174-183
Back Matter....Pages 184-202

✦ Subjects

Fiction; Nineteenth-Century Literature