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In this volume, critics from Canada, Japan, the USA and the UK, offer fresh readings of Hardy's works. They also raise far wider and far reaching questions about Hardy's attitude to his art, his relation to such contemporary forms as melodrama, and his response to the ongoing scientific debates, from Darwin to Einstein, about sexuality, personal identity, the meaning of suicide and the nature of time.
PHILLIP MALLETT is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. His work of Hardy includes an edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge, and two collections of essays A Spacious Vision (with R.P.Draper) and The Achievement of Thomas Hardy.
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