Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure

SIMON AVERY is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Westminster, UK. He is co-author (with Rebecca Stott) of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2003), editor of Lives of Victorian Literary Figures II: The Brownings (2004).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionsContemporary ReviewsEstablishing Lines of Critical Enquiry, 1890-1949Developing Critical Approaches: Criticism of the 1950s and 1960sCritical Expansion: Criticism of the 1970sThe Impact of High Theory: Criticism of the 1980sRecent (Re)Readings: Criticism from 1990 to the PresentRe-Representations: Film and Television AdaptationsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.