A Hardy Companion : a Guide to the works of Thomas Hardy and their background

Front Matter....Pages n1-xviii Hardy’s Life....Pages 1-14 The Novels....Pages 15-57 The Short Stories....Pages 58-100 Drama....Pages 101-117 The Poems....Pages 118-129 Wessex in Transition....Pages 130-142 Views on Art, Tragedy, and Fiction....Pages 143-151 Aspects of the Unusual and Irrational....Pages 152-161 Towards Symbolism....Pages 162-166 Christianity, Scientific Philosophy, and Politics....Pages 167-183 Influence and Recollections of Architecture, Music, Painting, and Literature....Pages 184-224 Dictionary of People and Places in Hardy’S Works....Pages 225-520 Back Matter....Pages 521-N34