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Ambivalence in Hardy

A Study of his Attitude Towards Women

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  • © 2000

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  1. Shanta Dutta
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Critics’ Debate

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    Pages 1-21

  3. The Hand of Ethelberta

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    Pages 23-36

  4. The Return of the Native

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    Pages 37-55

  5. Two on a Tower

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    Pages 57-71

  6. The Woodlanders

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    Pages 73-91

  7. The Short Stories of the 1890s

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    Pages 93-109

  8. Jude the Obscure

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    Pages 111-130

  9. Hardy, his Wives, and his Literary Protégées

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    Pages 131-159

  10. Hardy and Some Contemporary Female Writers

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    Pages 161-198

  11. Conclusion: ‘A Confused Heap of Impressions’

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    Pages 199-220

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 221-256
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This book re-examines the critical debate regarding Hardy's attitude to women: apologist or misogynist? With the help of manuscript evidence and references to Hardy's autobiography, letters, literary notebooks, marginalia, and the letters of his wives, this book combines a biographical approach with a feminist reading. Significant space is devoted to the 'minor' novels, the short stories, and to Hardy's real life literary relations with his contemporary women writers, his protégées and his two 'scribbling' wives, to balance the hitherto exclusive focus on the 'major' novels.

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...Dutta's intelligent and eloquent study of the novelist's ambivalent attitute toward women offers material not otherwise obtainable... Choice

About the author

Shanta Dutta is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.

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