Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Hardy and Literary Studies at the Turn of the Century....Pages 1-13
Flesh and Spirit in Thomas Hardy....Pages 14-22
Hardy and the Limits of Culturalism....Pages 23-35
Speech Acts, Decisions, and Community in The Mayor of Casterbridge....Pages 36-53
Hardy or James? Thoughts on Academic Literary Discrimination Today....Pages 54-64
Hardy, Barbarism, and the Transformations of Modernity....Pages 65-79
A Laodicean: Hardy and the Philosophy of Money....Pages 80-98
Story, History, Allegory: Some Ironies of Jude the Obscure from a Benjamin Perspective....Pages 99-115
The Contemporary, the All: Liberal Politics and the Origins of Wessex....Pages 116-137
’saying that now you are not as you were’: Hardy’s ‘Poems of 1912–13’....Pages 138-152
Hardy, History, and Recorded Music....Pages 153-166
Hardy and Contemporary Textual Studies: Authorial Intention in The Trumpet-Major....Pages 167-177
Thomas Hardy at the End of Two Centuries: From Page to Screen....Pages 178-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-227