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ESSAYS ANDEARLIER  \nON THOMAS HARDY  \nAlso by Peter Widdowson  \nTESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES(editor),New Casebooks Series  \nTHOMAS HARDY:Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose(editor)  \nOn Thomas Hardy  \n# Late Essays and Earlier\n\nPeter Widdowson  \nFirst published in Great Britain 1998 by  \nMACMILLAN PRESS LTD  \nHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG216XS and LondonCompanies and representatives throughout the world  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nISBN 978-1-349-26279-3(eBook)  \nISBN 978-0-333-67998-2  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-26279-3  \nFirst published in the United States of America 1998 by  \nST.MARTIN’S PRESS,INC.,  \nScholarly and Reference Division,175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010  \nISBN 978-0-312-21078-6  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataWiddowson,Peter.  \nOn Thomas Hardy:late essays and earlier/Peter Widdowson.p.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references(p.  )and index.ISBN 978-0-312-21078-6(cloth)  \n1.Hardy,Thomas,1840-1928—Criticism and interpretation.  \nI.Title.  \nPR4754.W4651998823'.8—dc2197-26677CIP  \n◎ Peter Widdowson 1998  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be madewithout written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save withwritten permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs andPatents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued bythe Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London WIP9HE.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable tocriminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.  \nThe author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordancewith the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed andsustained forest sources.  \n10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  107060504 C030201009998  \nFor Neville and Pat Shrimpton'When We Were Young'  \nContents  \nAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction  \n.以  \n1  \n1 Thomas Hardy:A Partial Portrait(1996)  \n10  \n2 Hardy in History:A Case-Study in the Sociology ofLiterature(1983)  \n27  \n3 Hardy and Social Class:The Hand of Ethelberta(1989)  \n45  \n4 Hardy's 'Quite Worthless'Novel:A Laodicean(1997)  \n93  \n5 'Moments of Vision':Postmodernizing Tess of thed’Urbervilles;or,Tess of the d’Urbervilles FaithfullyPresented by Peter Widdowson (1994)115  \n6 Recasting Hardy the Poet(1996)134  \n7 Arabella and the Satirical Discourse in Jude theObscure(1997)168  \nPostscript:The Film of Jude(1997)188Notes196References211Index of Proper Names216  \n# Acknowledgements\n\nThe author and publishers wish to thank the following for permis-sion to use copyright material:Manchester University Press forPeter Widdowson,'Hardy in History:A Case Study in theSociology of Literature’,Literature in History(1983);NorthcoteHouse Publishers Ltd for parts of Peter Widdowson,'Arabella andthe Satirical Discourse in Jude the Obscure',from Thomas Hardy(Writers and their Work Series,1976);Everyman's Library forparts of Peter Widdowson,'Hardy's“Quite Worthless”Novel:A Laodicean’,Introduction to A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy(forthcoming).  \nEvery effort has been made to trace the copyright holders,but ifany have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will bepleased to make the necessary arrangement at the first opportunity.  \n# Abbreviations\n\nAll page references to Hardy's novels are to the Macmillan 'NewWessex'editions of 1974-75(since reprinted,with some variationsin pagination).Details of the volumes used are given below.Allother notes and references are keyed to the References at the end ofthe book.The standard collected editions of Hardy's shorter poemsare Gibson(ed.)(1976)and Hynes(ed.)(1982,1984a,1985);however,most of the poems referred to in the present volume areincluded in 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