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The Hidden Hardy

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  • © 1992

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  1. Joe Fisher
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 1-19

  3. Desperate Remedies (1871): A Trojan Horse

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 20-37

  4. Far From the Madding Crowd (1874): Priapus in Arcadia

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 38-62

  5. The Hand of Ethelberta (1876): Fanny Rampant

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 63-81

  6. The Return of the Native (1878): Arcadia Overthrown

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 82-98

  7. A Laodicean (1881): Made of Money (I)

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 99-114

  8. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886): Made of Money (II)

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 115-135

  9. The Woodlanders (1887): The Beginning of the End

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 136-152

  10. Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891): Götterdämmerung

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 153-173

  11. Jude the Obscure (1895): High Farce

    • Joe Fisher
    Pages 174-192

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 193-205
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Focusing on narrative structure, irony, satire and allusion, The Hidden Hardy offers a radical new perspective on Thomas Hardy's novels. Hardy's own accounts of himself and his work have long been seen as calculated impostures; it is argued here that the same qualities are not only present in his novels, but are critical factors in the way they are made. The respectable and acceptable surfaces are the impostures, masking hidden texts which are extremely hostile to established social, economic and cultural structures.

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