Thomas Hardy and the proper study of mankind /

Simon Gatrell offers a fresh and stimulating exploration of Hardy's account in fiction of the individual man or woman's relationship with various aspects of the encompassing world - with other men and women, with the aggregation known as society, with the natural and artificial environment...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gatrell, Simon
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Series:	Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:	Hardy, Thomas, > 1840-1928 > Political and social views. Literature and anthropology > England > England > History > 19th century. Literature and society > England > History > 19th century. Community life in literature. Human beings in literature. Communities in literature.

Table of Contents:

Prelude: Hardy's Titles
1. Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire?
2. Hardy's Dances
3. The Return of the Native: Character and the Natural Environment
4. The Trumpet-Major, A Laodicean and Two on a Tower: The Man-Made Environment
5. The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Fate of Michael Henchard's Characters
6. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
7. Angel Clare's Story
8. Sex, Marriage and the Decline of Traditional Community in Jude the Obscure, together with a Digression on the Evils (or otherwise) of drink
9. 'From the White Sea to Cape Horn': Thomas Hardy and the Wider World.