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Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind

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  • © 1993

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  1. Simon Gatrell
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 1-6

  3. Prelude: Hardy’s Titles

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 7-9

  4. Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire?

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 10-23

  5. Hardy’s Dances

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 24-41

  6. The Return of the Native: Character and the Natural Environment

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 42-49

  7. The Trumpet-Major, A Laodicean and Two on a Tower: The Man-Made Environment

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 50-67

  8. The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Fate of Michael Henchard’s Character

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 68-96

  9. Tess of the d’Urbervilles

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 97-108

  10. Angel Clare’s Story

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 109-139

  11. Sex, Marriage and the Decline of Traditional Community in Jude the Obscure

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 140-171

  12. ‘From the White Sea to Cape Horn’: Thomas Hardy and the Wider World

    • Simon Gatrell
    Pages 172-182

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 183-195
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Explores Hardy's account in fiction of the individual man or woman's relationship with various aspects of the encompassing world - with other individual men and women, with the aggregation known as society, with the natural and artificial environment and with the supernatural.

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