Thomas Hardy Annual No. 5

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Social Comedy? On Re-reading The Woodlanders ....Pages 3-21
Editing Hardy’s Novels....Pages 22-37
’Strange webs of melancholy’: Shelleyan Echoes in The Woodlanders ....Pages 38-46
Styles of Love in Far From the Madding Crowd ....Pages 47-62
From Strength to Strength: John Schlesinger’s Film of Far From the Madding Crowd ....Pages 63-74
 A Group of Noble Dames: ‘Statuesque dynasties of delightful Wessex’....Pages 75-101
Hardy’s Historians....Pages 102-118
Hardy and ‘the world of little things’....Pages 119-136
Inscriptions of Self: Thomas Hardy and Autobiography....Pages 137-156
A Survey of Recent Hardy Studies....Pages 157-181
A Note on the Provenance of folio 9 of ‘Saturday Night in Arcady’....Pages 182-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
The Buried Life: A New Edition of F. E. Hardy’s ‘Biography’....Pages 187-211
Back Matter....Pages 212-217