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OF THOMASHARDY  \nCRITICAL  \nAPPROACHES TOTHE FICTION OFTHOMAS HARDY  \nEdited byDALE KRAMER  \nProfessor of EnglishUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  \nSelection,editorial matter and chapter 1 ◎ Dale Kramer 1979.Chapter 2 ◎ Daniel R.Schwarz 1979.Chapter 3◎ W.J.Keith1979.Chapter 4 ◎ Peter J.Casagrande 1979.Chapter 5 CSimon Gatrell 1979.Chapter 6 ◎ Elaine Showalter 1979.Chapter7 ◎ Mary Jacobus 1979.Chapter 8 ◎Leon Waldoff 1979.Chapter9 ◎ Richard C.Carpenter 1979.Chapter 10 ◎ Michael Ryan1979.Chapter 11 ◎ David Lodge 1979.Chapter 12 ◎ JamesR.Kincaid 1979.  \nSoftcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990978-0-333-23756-4  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced ortransmitted,in any form or by any means,without permission  \nFirst edilion 1979Reprinted 1990  \nPublished byTHE MACMILIAN PRESS LTDLondon and BasingstokeAssociated companies in DelhiDublin Hong Kong Johannesburg LagosMelbourne New York Singapore Tokyo  \n\n| British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data   |\n| --- |\n| Critical approaches to the fiction of Thomas Hardy   |\n| 1.Hardy,Thomas,b.1840-Criticism and   |\n| interpretation   |\n| I.Kramer,Dale   |\n| 823.8  \u003Cbr>PR4754   |\n| ISBN 978-1-349-03782-7 ISBN 978-1-349-03780-3(eBook)  \u003Cbr>DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-03780-3   |\n|  |\n\nContents  \nTextual Note  \nix  \nNotes on the Contributors  \nI Making Approaches to Hardy Dale Kramer  \n工  \n2 Beginnings and Endings in Hardy's Major FictionDaniel R.Schwarz  \n17  \n3 A Regional Approach to Hardy's Fiction W.J.Keith36  \n4 A New View of Bathsheba Everdene Peter  \nJ.Casagrande  \ns Hardy the Creator:Far from the Madding CrowdSimon Gatrell74  \n6 The Unmanning of the Mayor of CasterbridgeElaine Showalter99  \n7 Tree and Machine:The Woodlanders Mary Jacobus  \nII6  \n8 Psychological Determinism in Tess of the d'UrbervillesLeon WaldoffI35  \n9 How to Read A Few Crusted Characters Richard C.CarpenterI55  \n10 One Name of Many Shapes:The Well-BelovedMichael RyanI72  \nvi  \nCONTENTS  \nII Jude the Obscure:Pessimism and Fictional FormDavid Lodge  \n# Textual Note\n\nQuotations from Hardy's works are taken from the texts of theWessex Edition(1912-31),published by Macmillan &Co.Ltd.,ofLondon.Most modern reprints use the text of this edition,the lastedition supervised and proof-read by Hardy.Because the WessexEdition is no longer in print,citations also are given to chapters forease in reference by readers of such other editions as the New WessexEdition,paperback and hardcover,published in recent years byMacmillan.  \n# Notes on the Contributors\n\nRICHARDC.CARPENTER.Professor of English at Bowling Green StateUniversity.Has published Thomas Hardy and essays in suchjournals asNCF,MFS,Journal of Modern Literature,and Critique.Is writing abook on the Romantic revival in late nineteenth-century fiction.  \nPETERJ.CASAGRANDE.Associate Professor of English at the Universityof Kansas.Has published articles and reviews on Hardy andWordsworth in ELH,ELT,Criticism,and the Thomas Hardy Review.  \nSIMONGATRELL.Lecturer in English Studies at the New University ofUlster at Coleraine,Northern Ireland.Has published several essays onHardy,and,in collaboration with Dr Tony Bareham,A Bibliographyof George Crabbe.Is working on a full-length study of Hardy from thepoint of view of the development of the texts.  \nMARY JACOBUS.Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall,Oxford.Haspublished Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's 'Lyrical Ballads'and several essays on Hardy,and has in progress a book on Hardy.  \nW.J.KEITH.Professor of English at the University of Toronto.Bornand brought up in England,now a Canadian citizen.Has publishedRichard Jefferies:A Critical Study,Charles G.D.Roberts,The RuralTradition,and essays on Hardy in NCFand ELN.In the pressis a bookon rural poetry from Wordsworth to the present.  \nJAMESR.KINCAID.Professor of English at the University of Colorado.Has published Dickens and 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