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Tables of Contents for The Mayor of Casterbridge
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition
ix
A Note on the Text
xiii
The Text of The Mayor of Casterbridge
Preface
3
2
The Mayor of Casterbridge
5
450
Backgrounds and Contexts
Composition
The Manuscript of Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge
255
22
Christine Winfield
Hardy's Nonfictional Writings
From The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
277
6
[Dialect in the Novel]
283
1
From the Dorsetshire Labourer
284
7
From the Profitable Reading of Fiction
291
1
From Candour in English Fiction
292
2
From General Preface to the Novels and Poems
294
4
Hardy's Wessex
Map of the Wessex of the Novels and Poems
298
2
Map of Casterbridge and Durnover (circa 1848)
300
2
Place-Names in The Mayor of Casterbridge
302
2
A Note on the Corn Laws
304
1
The Evolution of Wessex
305
10
Michael Millgate
Criticism
Contemporary Reception
From The Athenaeum
315
1
From The Saturday Review
316
2
George Saintsbury
From The Spectator
318
2
Richard Holt Hutton
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine
320
4
William Dean Howells
Modern Criticism
[Hardy's Impression of Life]
324
2
Virginia Woolf
[Henchard's Self-Condemnation]
326
4
Albert J. Guerard
The Mayor of Casterbridge and the Old Testament's First Book of Samuel
330
12
Julian Moynahan
The Mayor of Casterbridge as Tragedy
342
19
John Paterson
[The Role of Elizabeth-Jane]
361
5
Michael Millgate
The Struggles of Men
366
14
Irving Howe
[A Nightmare of Frustrated Desire]
380
2
J. Hillis Miller
A Man and His History
382
9
Ian Gregor
The Unmanning of the Mayor of Casterbridge
391
15
Elaine Showalter
[Reversing the Real]
406
8
George Levine
Degenerate Spaces
414
10
William Greenslade
[The Paradoxes of Love]
424
13
H. M. Daleski
[Narrative Annexes: Mixen Lane]
437
18
Suzanne Keen
A Chronology
455
4
Thomas Hardy
Selected Bibliography
459