Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent

Jane Thomas is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Hull.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Hardy and 'The Thinking World' The Question of 'Woman' Desperate Remedies (1871): The 'Martyrdom of Self-Conceit' A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873): Policing the Self The Hand of Ethelberta (1876): The Limits of Resistance A Laodicean (1886): Power and Agency Two on a Tower (1886): 'The Artificial System of Things' The Well-Beloved (1897): Galatea's Revenge Notes Bibliography Index

Thomas's analysis makes clear that Hardy's minor novels offer readers the same passionate, argumentative spirit that animates the major ones... Victorian Studies