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Hardy, Thomas, 1840–1928—Criticism and interpretation.  \n2. Sensationalism in literature. 3. Melodrama, English—History and criticism. I. Title.  \nPR4754.N43 2011  \n823􀀂 .8—dc22 2010040164  \nA catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library Design by Integra Software Services  \nFirst edition: April 2011  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nTo Jane  \n“To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.”  \nContents  \nList of Figures ix  \nAcknowledgments xi  \nIntroduction: Thomas Hardy and the Melodramatic  \nImagination 1  \nPart I Melodramas of Masculinity—Desperate Remedies and The Mayor of Casterbridge  \n1 “‘I love you better than any man can’ ”: Sensation  \nFiction, Class, and Gender Role Anxiety in Desperate Remedies 25  \n2 “‘No man ever loved another as I did thee’ ”: Melodrama,  \nMasculinity, and the Moral Occult (I) in The Mayor of  \nCasterbridge 49  \nPart II Sensational Bodies, Melodramatic Spectacles—Far from theMadding Crowd andA Laodicean  \n3 “‘Kiss me too, Frank ... You will Frank kiss me too!’”: Sensationalism, Surveillance, and Gazing at the Body in Far from the Madding Crowd 83  \n4 “ ‘A mixed young lady, rather’”: Melodrama, Technology,  \nand Dis/Embodied Sensation inA Laodicean 121  \nPart III Melodramas of Modernity and Class Status—The Hand of Ethelberta and Jude the Obscure  \n5 “‘Lady—not a penny less than lady’”: Satire, Melodrama,  \nand the Sensational Fiction of Class Status in The Hand of Ethelberta 153  \nviii CONTENTS  \n6 “ ‘Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery?’”: Sensationalist Tragedy, Melodramatic Modernity, and the Moral Occult (II) in Jude the Obscure 179  \nNotes 211  \nBibliography 229  \nIndex 239  \nList of Figures  \n1 Hands were loosening his neckerchief 92  \n2 Her tears fell fast beside the unconscious pair 111  \nAcknowledgments  \nMy thanks are due to numerous individuals and institutions that helped in the completion of this book. Lillian Swindall, Librarian of the Dorset County Museum, was (as always) gracious and helpful during my visits there, and Kevin Repp, Curator ofthe Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University, was likewise welcoming and efficient in making its resources available. As well, Christine Faunch, Acting Head of Archives and Special Collections, Library and Research Support, Academic Services, Old Library, and Gemma Poulton, Principal Support Officer (Archives), Special Collections, Old Library, were instrumental in procuring the suitably sensational illustration that fronts this text: cover illustration courtesy of Special Collections, University of Exeter. 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