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Tables of Contents for The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Notes on contributors
xi
4
Preface
xv
3
A chronology of Hardy's life and Publications
xviii
5
List of abbreviations and texts
xxiii
1 Thomas Hardy: the biographical sources
1
18
MICHAEL MILLGATE
2 Wessex
19
19
SIMON GATRELL
3 Art and aesthetics
38
16
NORMAN PAGE
4 The influence of religion, science, and philosophy on Hardy's writings
54
19
ROBERT SCHWEIK
5 Hardy and critical theory
73
20
PETER WIDDOWSON
6 Thomas Hardy and matters of gender
93
19
KRISTIN BRADY
7 Variants on genre: The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Hand of Ethelberta
112
18
JAKOB LOTHE
8 The patriarchy of class: Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders
130
15
PENNY BOUMELHA
9 The radical aesthetic of Tess of the d'Urbervilles
145
19
LINDA M. SHIRES
10 Hardy and readers: Jude the Obscure
164
19
DALE KRAMER
11 Hardy as a nineteenth-century poet
183
21
DENNIS TAYLOR
12 The modernity of Thomas Hardy's poetry
204
20
JOHN PUAL RIQUELME
Index
224