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978-1-349-02743-9(eBook)  \nISBN 978-1-349-02745-3  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-02743-9  \n⑥Wayne State University Press,Detroit,Michigan 482021975Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1975978-0-333-18942-9  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without permission.  \nFirst published in the U.S.A.and Canada 1975First published in the United Kingdom 1975  \nPublished by  \nTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDLondon and Basingstoke  \nAssociated companies in New YorkDublin Melbourne Johannesburg and Madras  \nSBN 333189426  \nFor  \nFrances  \nCheris  \nBrinlee  \nJana  \nCONTENTS  \nAcknowledgments 7  \n1.Introduction 9  \n2.Far from the Madding Crowd:The Non-Tragic Predecessor 24  \n3.The Return of the Native:Opposites in Tragic Context 48  \n4.The Mayor of Casterbridge:The Moment as Repetition 69  \n5.The Woodlanders:Tragedy in Common 92  \n6.Tess of the dUrbervilles:Pure Tragedy of Consciousness 111  \n7.Jude the Obscure:Doctrine orDistanced Narrator?136Notes 166Index 185  \n# ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\n\nTo my colleagues Donald Smalley and Jack Stillinger,both of whomread the manuscript in its early stages and gave encouragement anduseful criticism,I wish to express my thanks.Cheris Kramer helpedto correct the manuscript in the early drafts,and my students at OhioUniversity and the University of Illinois have contributed ideas andhave assisted me in arriving at my interpretations and in correctingsome errors of emphasis.Funds to cover some of the expenses in pre-paring the manuscript were provided by the Graduate College Re-search Board at the University of Illinois.  \nPermission to publish material from the Hardy novels that arestill in copyright has been granted by the Trustees of the Hardy Es-tate,The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited,and Macmillan ofLondon and Basingstoke.Part of the first chapter was published inThe Dalhousie Review(1971),vol.51,and is reprinted here with thepermission of the Dalhousie University Press Limited.Approximatelyhalf of the chapter on The Mayor of Casterbridge appeared in Ten-nessee Studies in Literature,ed.Richard Beale Davis and Kenneth  \nL.Knickerbocker(1971),vol.16(Copyright,c1971 by the Universityof Tennessee Press),and is reprinted here with the permission of theUniversity of Tennessee Press.  \n# Textual Note\n\nQuotations from Hardy's novels are from the Wessex edition (London:Macmillan,1912),or from reissues of this edition termed the Libraryedition and the Greenwood edition.Page references to these editionswhich are identical are given in the text.I have altered the punctu-ation of dialogue to conform with customary American usage so thatthe punctuation of long passages is consistent with that of brief quo-tations within my own sentences.References to Hardy's memoirs,orautobiography,are also within the text:The Early Life of ThomasHardy,1840-1891(London:Macmillan,1928)is cited as Early Life;The Later Years of Thomas Hardy,1892-1928(London:Macmillan,1930)is cited as Later Years.The memoirs were written by Hardy inthe third person and published after his death under the name of hissecond wife.For an account of the autobiography,see Richard LittlePurdy,Thomas Hardy:A Bibliographical Study(1954;reprintedOxford:Clarendon Press;New York:Oxford University Press,1968),pp.265-67,272-73.  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nThe crucial role that form or structure plays in the novelist's presen-tation of life was obvious to Thomas Hardy.His novels are carefullyconstructed;and the once fashionable observation that his architec-tural training as a youth was the reason he built neat,geometric plotsdoes not account for the range of experimentation and inventivenessin the forms of his novels.Hardy's continuing popularity has to dowith a combination of seriousness,tenderness,and tolerance that en-ables him to make significant interpret","cbCaimzuLrVYYPKX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimzuLrVYYPKX","pdf",18937412,189,"English","# 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