Thomas Hardy: A Textual Study of the Short

This is the definitive textual analysis of all of Hardy's collected short stories, tracing the development of each from manuscript, through newspaper serial versions, galley proofs and revises to collected editions in volume form.It is no surprise to discover that Hardy's capacity for inveterate revision is manifested in his tales as it was in his novels. Even those stories for which he professed little regard were meticulously and continuously revised, in some cases more than thirty years after their first publication. The alterations extend to the most minute details of plot, landscape, characterisation and style, as well as the restoration of bowdlerised passages which had been demanded by serial magazines.This study will play a major role in elevating the importance of this genre in Hardy's prolific output and will illuminate his textual practices - an area of considerable and growing interest to a large number of scholars and students.

Acknowledgements

x

(1)

Chronology

xi

(4)

Preface

xv

(1)

Abbreviations

xvi

Part One Wessex Tales

3

(66)

Introduction

3

(5)

1 `The Three Strangers'

8

(6)

2 `A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four'

14

(8)

3 `The Melancholy Hussar'

22

(13)

4 `The Withered Arm'

35

(7)

5 `Fellow-Townsmen'

42

(7)

6 `Interlopers at the Knap'

49

(6)

7 `The Distracted Preacher'

55

(14)

Part Two A Group of Noble Dames

69

(98)

Introduction

69

(9)

8 `The First Countess of Wessex'

78

(8)

9 `Barbara of the House of Grebe'

86

(11)

10 `The Marchioness of Stonehenge'

97

(8)

11 `Lady Mottisfont'

105

(7)

12 `The Lady Icenway'

112

(9)

13 `Squire Petrick's Lady'

121

(15)

14 `Anna, Lady Baxby'

136

(5)

15 `The Lady Penelope'

141

(5)

16 `The Duchess of Hamptonshire'

146

(11)

17 `The Honourable Laura'

157

(10)

Part Three Life's Little Ironies

167

(94)

Introduction

167

(4)

18 `An Imaginative Woman'

171

(10)

19 `The Son's Veto'

181

(6)

20 `For Conscience' Sake'

187

(7)

21 `A Tragedy of Two Ambitions'

194

(7)

22 `On the Western Circuit'

201

(17)

23 `To Please His Wife'

218

(4)

24 `The Fiddler of the Reels'

222

(6)

25 `A Few Crusted Characters'

228

(33)

`Introduction'

232

(3)

`Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver'

235

(5)

`The History of the Hardcomes'

240

(3)

`The Superstitious Man's Story'

243

(1)

`Andrey Satchel and the Person and Clerk'

244

(5)

`Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician'

249

(1)

`Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir'

249

(2)

`The Winters and the Palmleys'

251

(2)

`Incident in the Life of Mr. George Crookhill'

253

(2)

`Netty Sargent's Copyhold'

255

(6)

Part Four A Changed Man and Other Tales

261

(80)

Introduction

261

(6)

26 `A Changed Man'

267

(5)

27 `The Waiting Supper'

272

(7)

28 `Alicia's Diary'

279

(4)

29 `The Grave by the Handpost'

283

(4)

30 `Enter a Dragoon'

287

(4)

31 `A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork'

291

(11)

32 `What the Shepherd Saw'

302

(5)

33 `A Committee-Man of "The Terror"'

307

(6)

34 `Master John Horseleigh, Knight'

313

(5)

35 `The Duke's Reappearance'

318

(5)

36 `A Mere Interlude'

323

(4)

37 `The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid'

327

(14)

Bibliography

341

(4)

Index

345

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