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CONTENTS List of Figures Introduction Acknowledgements Part One: Periodical Publication 1 Neither Tales nor Short Stories: Issues of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing in A Group of Noble Dames Graham Law 2 "Moonlight Nights": Hardy, Christmas, and the Illustrated London News Siobhan Craft Brownson Part Two: Gender Relationships 3"Getting life-leased at all cost": Marriage in Hardy’s Late Short Stories Suzanne Flynn 4 Pregnant by a Portrait: The Dynamics of Desire for Hardy’s "Imaginative Woman" Deborah Manion 5"Imaginative Sentiment": Love, Letters, and Literacy in Thomas Hardy’s Shorter Fiction Karin Koehler Part Three: Community Relationships 6 Hardy and Humor: The Mores of Wessex Juliette Berning Schaefer 7 Love, Deception, and Disguise in A Few Crusted Characters JoAnna Stephens Mink Part Four: Narrative Technique 8 "To Correct the Misrelation": Reading Hardy’s Wessex Tales Neelanjana Basu 9 Representations of the Body in Hardy’s Life’s Little Ironies Carolina Paganine 10 Hardy’s Mercurial Narrator: "Breaking the Frame" in "A Changed Man" Keith Callis Notes on Contributors Index