Reading Thomas Hardy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. ‘She matched his violence with her own wild passion’: Illustrating Far from the Madding Crowd

   • Pamela Dalziel

   Pages 1-32

3. Less than Faithfully Presented: Fictions in Modern Commentaries on Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles

   • Robert Schweik

   Pages 33-56

4. Characterization in Hardy’s Jude the Obscure: The Function of Arabella

   • John R. Doheny

   Pages 57-82

5. Hardy Promises: The Dynasts and the Epic of Imperialism

   • Charles Lock

   Pages 83-116

6. From Fascination to Listlessness: Hardy’s Depiction of Love

   • Michael Irwin

   Pages 117-137

7. ‘The Worthy Encompassed by the Inevitable’: Hardy and a New Perception of Tragedy

   • Raymond Chapman

   Pages 138-155

8. Hardy and Time

   • Phillip Mallett

   Pages 156-171

9. How to be an Old Poet: The Examples of Hardy and Yeats

   • Samuel Hynes

   Pages 172-187

10. Variations on Two Enigmas: Hardy, Elgar and the Muses

    • Joanna Cullen Brown

    Pages 188-208

11. Thomas Hardy, Epistolarian

    • Ralph W. V. Elliott

    Pages 209-226

12. Distracted Preacher: Thomas Hardy’s Public Utterances

    • Michael Millgate

    Pages 227-247

13. The Wit and Wisdom of Thomas Hardy

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 248-262

14. Back Matter

    Pages 263-268

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The wide-ranging and lively essays in Reading Thomas Hardy will appeal to anyone interested in Hardy. Specialists and Hardy enthusiasts will find a showcase for the work of many of the world's leading Hardy scholars. Subjects covered include Hardy the writer and Hardy the man, individual texts and wider themes, and Hardy's relationships to other artists. Whether presenting new research, embodying the best of traditional approaches, or challenging the reader with new interpretations, all the papers are authoritative and accessible.

• access
• corpus
• epic
• essay
• fiction
• imperialism
• individual
• interpret
• perception
• subject
• Thomas Hardy
• tradition
• tragedy
• violence
• William Butler Yeats

JOANNA CULLEN BROWN Tutor, Department of Continuing Education, University of Bristol RAYMOND CHAPMAN Professor Emeritus of English, University of London, and Lecturer and Academic Adviser, London Centre of the Institute of European Studies PAMELA DALZIEL Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia JOHN DOHENY Professor Emeritus of English, University of British Columbia RALPH ELLIOTT Visiting Professor in English and Honorary Librarian, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University SAMUEL HYNES Professor Emeritus of Literature, Princeton University MICHAEL IRWIN Professor of English Literature, University of Kent CHARLES LOCK Professor of English Literature, University of Copenhagen PHILLIP MALLETT Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews MICHAEL MILLGATE University Professor of English Emeritus, University of Toronto HAROLD OREL University Distinguished Professor of English, University of Kansas ROBERT SCHWEIK Honorary Vice-President of the Thomas Hardy Society and Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Emeritus, State University of New York

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