ABSTRACT

In The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, some of the most prominent Hardy specialists working today offer an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest new directions in Hardy studies. The contributors cover virtually every area relevant to Hardy's fiction and poetry, including philosophy, palaeontology, biography, science, film, popular culture, beliefs, gender, music, masculinity, tragedy, topography, psychology, metaphysics, illustration, bibliographical studies and contemporary response. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed especially for scholars and advanced graduate students. This companion is specially designed to aid original research on Hardy and serve as the critical basis for Hardy studies in the new millennium. Among the features are a comprehensive bibliography that includes not only works in English but, in acknowledgment of Hardy's explosion in popularity around the world, also works in languages other than English.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Bibliographical Studies

part |2 pages

Part III An Early Literary Influence and a Late Topographical Construct

part |2 pages

Part V Critical Approaches

part |2 pages

Part VII Illustrators and Biographers

chapter 23|38 pages

Illustrating Hardy’s Novels

chapter 24|20 pages

Hardy and the Biographers

part |2 pages

PART VIII: The Millennium: Sage Writers in Tribute to Their Muse