Further Reading
- Adelman, Gary. Jude the Obscure: A Paradise of Despair. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992, 137 p. (Summarizes the historical context and critical reception of Jude the Obscure, followed by an interpretive reading of the novel that highlights its prevailing mood of despair.)
- Alden, Patricia. "A Short Story Prelude to Jude the Obscure: More Light on the Genesis of Hardy's Last Novel." Colby Library Quarterly XIX, No. 1 (March 1983): 45-52. (Observes the "germ" of Jude the Obscure in Hardy's short story "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions.")
- Bloom, Harold, ed. Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure.' New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, 152 p. (Collection of nine critical essays on Jude the Obscure.)
- Dellamora, Richard. "Male Relations in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure." Papers on Language & Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 27, No. 4 (Fall 1991): 453-72. (Studies the juxtaposition of erotic and ambitious male desire in Jude the Obscure.*)
- Freeman, Janet H. "Highways and Cornfields: Space and Time in the Narration of Jude the Obscure." Colby Library Quarterly XXVII, No. 2 (June 1991): 161-73. (Argues the ultimate congruence of "space, time, and narrativity in Jude the Obscure.*")
- Giordano, Frank R., Jr. "Jude the Obscure and the Bildungsroman." Studies in the Novel IV, No. 4 (Winter 1972): 580-91. (Seeks "a unifying formal principle in Jude the Obscure by examining the novel in relation to … the Bildungsroman,* the novel of development and education.")
- Hassett, Michael E. "Compromised Romanticism in Jude the Obscure." Nineteenth-Century Fiction* 25, No. 4 (March 1971): 432-43. (Contends that the lives of Jude Fawley and Sue Bride-head form a critique of "the Romantics' faith in the power of transcending or transforming imagination.")
- Ingham, Patricia. "Introduction." In Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, pp. xi-xxii. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. (Perceives Jude the Obscure as critical of the three major forces operating in late Victorian society: class, patriarchy, and Christianity.)
- Kincaid, James R. "Girl-watching, Child-beating and Other Exercises for Readers of Jude the Obscure." In The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy, edited by Margaret R. Higonnet, pp. 132-48. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. (Studies the topics of homicidal voyeurism and sadism directed toward children in Jude the Obscure.*)
- Lodge, David. "Jude the Obscure: Permission and Fictional Form." In Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Thomas Hardy, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1979, pp. 193-201. (Presents several key scenes in the novel as evidence that the form of Jude the Obscure "works to articulate and reinforce the pessimism of its vision of life.")
- Millgate, Michael. "Jude the Obscure." In Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist, pp. 317-35. New York: Random House, 1971. (Evaluates the narrative technique and structure of Jude the Obscure.*)
- Paterson, John. "The Genesis of Jude the Obscure." Studies in Philology 57, No. 1 (January 1960): 87-98. (Uses manuscript evidence to suggest the development of Jude the Obscure* from a critique of the Victorian educational system into a work that takes "an equally critical examination of the sacrament and institution of marriage.")
- Schwartz, Barry N. "Jude the Obscure in the Age of Anxiety." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 X, No. 4 (Autumn 1970): 793-804. (Analyzes Jude the Obscure as a "modern epic" that endeavors to explore "the realities of twentieth-century life.")
- Steig, Michael. "Sue Bridehead." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 1, No. 3 (Spring 1968): 260-66. (Offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of Sue Bridehead and proposes that she is an aesthetically coherent example of the "hysterical character.")
- Watts, Cedric. "Hardy's Sue Bridehead and the 'New Woman.'" Critical Survey 5, No. 2 (1993): 152-56. (Investigates Hardy's depiction of Sue Bridehead as a proto-feminist 'New Woman,' a "young woman who is educated, intelligent, emancipated in ideas and in morality, and who is resistant to the conventional notion that marriage and maternity should be the goal of any normal female's progress.")
- Watts, Cedric. Thomas Hardy: 'Jude the Obscure.' London: Penguin Books, 1992, 132 p. (Provides extensive biographical, textual, critical, and contextual information relating to Jude the Obscure.)
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