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The Human Predicament in Hardy's Novels

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Macmillan Hardy Studies (MHS)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. The Nature of Hardy’s Thought

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Was Hardy a Philosopher?

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 3-16
    3. The Human Predicament

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 17-24
  3. The Establishment of Harmony: Hardy’s Ethical Resolution of the Metaphysical Absurd

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. Three Groups of Characters

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 30-32
    3. The Return of the Native

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 33-62
    4. The Mayor of Casterbridge

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 63-70
    5. Far From the Madding Crowd

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 71-75
  4. Deliverance from Passion: Hardy’s Philosophy of Sex, Love and Marriage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
    2. The Place of Sex in Hardy’s Ethics

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 87-88
    3. The Sublimation of Passion

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 93-99
    4. Schopenhauer and Hardy: Sex, Love and Marriage

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 100-106
    5. Hardy’s View of Guilt in Sex

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 107-111
  5. The Anguish of the Social Absurd: Hardy’s Secular Ethics of Human Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
    2. Hardy’s Humanism

      • Jagdish Chandra Dave
      Pages 137-140

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