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Notes on Contributors viii List of Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1Keith Wilson Part I The Life 5 1 Hardy as Biographical Subject 7Michael Millgate Part II The Intellectual Context 19 2 Hardy and Philosophy 21Phillip Mallett 3 Hardy and Darwin: An Enchanting Hardy? 36George Levine 4 Hardy and the Place of Culture 54Angelique Richardson 5 “The Hard Case of the Would-be-Religious”: Hardy and the Church from Early Life to Later Years 71Pamela Dalziel 6 Thomas Hardy’s Notebooks 86William Greenslade 7 “Genres are not to be mixed. . . . I will not mix them”: Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy’s Fiction 102Richard Nemesvari 8 Hardy and his Critics: Gender in the Interstices 117Margaret R. Higonnet Part III The Socio-Cultural Context 131 9 “His Country”: Hardy in the Rural 133Ralph Pite 10 Thomas Hardy of London 146Keith Wilson 11 “A Thickness of Wall”: Hardy and Class 162Roger Ebbatson 12 Reading Hardy through Dress: The Case of Far From the Madding Crowd 178Simon Gatrell 13 Hardy and Romantic Love 194Michael Irwin 14 Hardy and the Visual Arts 210J. B. Bullen 15 Hardy and Music: Uncanny Sounds 223Claire Seymour Part IV The Works 239 16 The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd 241Stephen Regan 17 “Wild Regions of Obscurity”: Narrative in The Return of the Native 254Penny Boumelha 18 Hardy’s “Novels of Ingenuity” Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A Laodicean: Rare Hands at Contrivances 267Mary Rimmer 19 Hardy’s “Romances and Fantasies” A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet-Major, Two on a Tower, and The Well-Beloved: Experiments in Metafiction 281Jane Thomas 20 The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge 299Julian Wolfreys 21 Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders 313Andrew Radford 22 Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity: Tess of the d’Urbervilles 328Tim Dolin 23 Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex 345Dennis Taylor 24 “. . . into the hands of pure-minded English girls”: Hardy’s Short Stories and the Late Victorian Literary Marketplace 364Peter Widdowson 25 Sequence and Series in Hardy’s Poetry 378Tim Armstrong 26 Hardy’s Poems: The Scholarly Situation 395William W. Morgan 27 That’s Show Business: Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts 413G. Glen Wickens Part V Hardy the Modern 431 28 Modernist Hardy: Hand-Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge 433J. Hillis Miller 29 Inhibiting the Voice: Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics 450Charles Lock 30 Hardy’s Heirs: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys 465Terry R. Wright Index 479