Thomas Hardy (Paperback)

Preface Notes on the Contributors Seen in a New Light: Irradiation and Illumination in Hardy; M.Irwin Hardy: the After-Life and the Life Before; G.Beer 'And I was Unaware': The Unknowing Omniscience of Hardy's Narrators; L.Shires A Laodicean as a Novel of Ingenuity; T.Sasaki Whatever Happened to Elizabeth-Jane? Revisioning Gender in The Mayor of Casterbridge; P.Dalziel 'The Thing Must Be a Male, we Suppose': Erotic Triangles in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Billy Budd; R.Nemesvari The Characterization of Jude and Sue: The Myth and the Reality; J.R.Doheny 'Done because we are too menny': Little Father Time and Child Suicide in Late-Victorian Culture; S.Shuttleworth Hardy and Biology; A.Richardson The Hunter-Gatherers: Some Early Hardy Scholars and Collectors; M.Millgate Index