Thomas Hardy Texts and Contexts

In Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts distinguished critics from Canada, Japan, the US, and the UK, offer fresh and challenging readings of Hardy's works. They also raise far wider and far-reaching questions about Hardy's attitude to his art, his relation to such contemporary forms as melodrama, and his response to the ongoing scientific debates, from Darwin to Einstein, about sexuality; personal identity; the meaning of suicide; and the nature of time.

Phillip Mallett is Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews.

List of Figures

vii

Preface

ix

Notes on Contributors

xxii

Seen in a New Light: Illumination and Irradiation in Hardy

1

(17)

Michael Irwin

Hardy: the After-Life and the Life Before

18

(13)

Gillian Beer

`And I Was Unaware': the Unknowing Omniscience of Hardy's Narrators

31

(18)

Linda Shires

A Laodicean as a Novel of Ingenuity

49

(15)

Toru Sasaki

Whatever Happened to Elizabeth Jane?: Revisioning Gender in The Mayor of Casterbridge

64

(23)

Pamela Dalziel

`The Thing must be Male, we suppose': Erotic Triangles and Masculine Identity in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Melville's Billy Budd

87

(23)

Richard Nemesvari

The Characterisation of Jude and Sue: the Myth and the Reality

110

(23)

John R. Doheny

`Done because we are too menny': Little Father Time and Child Suicide in Late-Victorian Culture

133

(23)

Sally Shuttleworth

Hardy and Biology

156

(24)

Angelique Richardson

The Hunter-Gatherers: Some Early Hardy Scholars and Collectors

180

(20)

Michael Millgate

Index

200

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Thomas Hardy Texts and Contexts

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