"Notes on contributors
Preface
A chronology of Hardys life and Publications
List of abbreviations and texts
1 Thomas Hardy: the biographical sources
2 Wessex
3 Art and aesthetics
4 The influence of religion, science, and philosophy on Hardys writings
5 Hardy and critical theory
6 Thomas Hardy and matters of gender
7 Variants on genre: The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbirdge, The Hand of Ethelberta
8 The patriarchy of class: Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders
9 The radical aesthetic of Tess of the dUrbervilles
10 Hardy and readers: Jude the Obscure
11 Hardy as a nineteenth-century poet
12 The modernity of Thomas Hardys poetry
Index"