Thomas Hardy

GILLIAN BEER King Edward VII Professor of English, University of CambridgePAMELA DALZIEL Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia, CanadaJOHN R. DOHENY Professor Emeritus of English, University of British Columbia, CanadaMICHAEL IRWIN Professor of English, University of KentMICHAEL MILLGATE Emeritus Professor of English, University of TorontoRICHARD NEMESVARI Associate Professor, St Francis Xavier University,ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, University of ExeterTORU SASAKI Associate Professor of English, Kyoto University, JapanLINDA SHIRES Associate Professor of English, Syracuse UniversitySALLY SHUTTLEWORTH Professor of English, University of Sheffield

• Preface Notes on the Contributors Seen in a New Light: Irradiation and Illumination in Hardy; M.Irwin Hardy: the After-Life and the Life Before; G.Beer 'And I was Unaware': The Unknowing Omniscience of Hardy's Narrators; L.Shires A Laodicean as a Novel of Ingenuity; T.Sasaki Whatever Happened to Elizabeth-Jane? Revisioning Gender in The Mayor of Casterbridge; P.Dalziel 'The Thing Must Be a Male, we Suppose': Erotic Triangles in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Billy Budd; R.Nemesvari The Characterization of Jude and Sue: The Myth and the Reality; J.R.Doheny 'Done because we are too menny': Little Father Time and Child Suicide in Late-Victorian Culture; S.Shuttleworth Hardy and Biology; A.Richardson The Hunter-Gatherers: Some Early Hardy Scholars and Collectors; M.Millgate Index

'...an extremely interesting collection of essays, partly because of the authors' different perspectives and backgrounds.' - Stephen Frederic Dale, Biography'The volume's scholarship is uniformly excellent...' - R.D. Morrison, Choice