Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy Criticism

• Principal Works
• Hardy, Thomas (Short Story Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • Diabolical Dames and Grotesque Desires: The Short Stories
    • Hardy and the Law
    • ‘The Withered Arm’ and History
    • Motion Slickness: Spectacle and Circulation in Thomas Hardy's ‘On the Western Circuit.’
    • ‘How I Mismated Myself for Love of You!’: The Biologization of Romance in Hardy's A Group of Noble Dames
    • Abjection and Degeneration in Thomas Hardy's ‘Barbara of the House of Grebe.’
  • Further Reading
• Hardy, Thomas (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • The Novels of Thomas Hardy
    • Homage to Thomas Hardy
    • Hardy: A Wessex Seesaw
    • Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    • The Mayor of Casterbridge
    • The Return of the Native: Opposites in Tragic Context
    • ‘By Truth Made Free’: A Reassessment of Thomas Hardy
    • Hardy and the ‘world of little things.’
    • Thomas Hardy and the Role of Observer
    • Hardy's Female Reader
    • ‘Strange [in] Difference of Sex’: Thomas Hardy, the Victorian Man of Letters, and the Temptations of Androgyny
    • Thomas Hardy: The Poet as Philosopher
    • How to Be an Old Poet: The Examples of Hardy and Yeats
    • Thomas Hardy and Thomas Gray: The Poet's Currency
    • Hardy and the Imagery of Place
    • Hardy and Critical Theory
    • The Modernity of Thomas Hardy's Poetry
    • Thomas Hardy, Yet and Again
    • ‘The Historian of Wessex’: Thomas Hardy's Contribution to History
    • Hardy and the Warriors
  • Further Reading