Thomas Hardy Annual No. 1

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
‘Old Tom and New Tom’: Hardy and His Biographers....Pages 1-32
Hardy and Rural England....Pages 33-43
Hardy and ‘the Woman Question’....Pages 44-59
The Love Story in Two on a Tower....Pages 60-70
The Experimental and the Absurd in Two on a Tower....Pages 71-81
Fifty Years On....Pages 82-83
‘Words, in all their intimate accents’....Pages 84-94
Hardy’s Use of the Hair Motif....Pages 95-114
Hardy and His ‘Literary Notes’....Pages 115-128
Three Unpublished Letters by John Addington Symonds....Pages 129-133
Thomas Hardy, Donald Davie, England and the English....Pages 134-151
A Survey of Recent Hardy Studies....Pages 152-171
Dennis Taylor: Hardy’s Poetry, 1860–1928 and Patricia Clements and Juliet Grindle (eds): The Poetry of Thomas Hardy....Pages 172-176
Jeannette King, Tragedy in the Victorian Novel....Pages 177-180
R. L. Purdy, and M. Millgate (eds), The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, vol. 2....Pages 181-187
Back Matter....Pages 188-205