Thomas Hardy's Short Stories

Juliette Berning Schaefer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican University, USA, and Siobhan Craft Brownson is Associate Professor of English at Winthrop University, USA.

• CONTENTS List of FiguresIntroductionAcknowledgementsPart One: Periodical Publication1 Neither Tales nor Short Stories: Issues of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing in A Group of Noble Dames Graham Law2 "Moonlight Nights": Hardy, Christmas, and the Illustrated London News Siobhan Craft BrownsonPart Two: Gender Relationships3"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 Manion5"Imaginative Sentiment": Love, Letters, and Literacy in Thomas Hardy’s Shorter Fiction Karin KoehlerPart Three: Community Relationships6 Hardy and Humor: The Mores of WessexJuliette Berning Schaefer7 Love, Deception, and Disguise in A Few Crusted Characters JoAnna Stephens Mink Part Four: Narrative Technique8 "To Correct the Misrelation": Reading Hardy’s Wessex Tales Neelanjana Basu9 Representations of the Body in Hardy’s Life’s Little IroniesCarolina Paganine 10 Hardy’s Mercurial Narrator: "Breaking the Frame" in "A Changed Man" Keith Callis Notes on ContributorsIndex