Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Thomas Hardy and the Melodramatic Imagination....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
“‘I love you better than any man can’”: Sensation Fiction, Class, and Gender Role Anxiety in Desperate Remedies ....Pages 25-47
“‘No man ever loved another as I did thee’”: Melodrama, Masculinity, and the Moral Occult (I) in The Mayor of Casterbridge ....Pages 49-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
“‘Kiss me too, Frank … You will Frank kiss me too!’” Sensationalism, Surveillance, and Gazing at the Body in Far from the Madding Crowd ....Pages 83-120
“‘A mixed young lady, rather’”: Melodrama, Technology, and Dis/Embodied Sensation in A Laodicean ....Pages 121-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
“‘Lady—not a penny less than lady’”: Satire, Melodrama, and the Sensational Fiction of Class Status in The Hand of Ethelberta ....Pages 153-178
“‘Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery?’”: Sensationalist Tragedy, Melodramatic Modernity, and the Moral Occult (II) in Jude the Obscure ....Pages 179-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-245