The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy

Rosemarie Morgan is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at St Andrews University, UK. She is President of The Thomas Hardy Association, Vice President of the Thomas Hardy Society, and Editor of the biannual Hardy Review. Among her publications are Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy (1999) and Student Companion to Thomas Hardy (2006).

Contents: Introduction, Rosemarie Morgan; Part I Bibliographic Studies: Hardy bibliographies, Charles P.C. Pettit; The first 100 years of Hardy criticism: 1871-1971, W. Eugene Davis; Hardy archives, Charles P.C. Pettit. Part II Historical and Cultural Context: Hardy and Victorian popular culture: performing modernity in music-hall and melodrama, Richard Nemesvari; Hardy in (a time of) transition, Suzanne J. Flynn; Hardy and law: sexual relations and 'matrimonial divergence', William A. Davis. Part III An Early Literary Influence and a Late Topographical Construct: From Stratford to Casterbridge: the influence of Shakespeare, Dennis Taylor; The evolution of Wessex, Rosemarie Morgan with Scott Rode. Part IV Bodies of Knowledge and Belief: Philosophy, metaphysics and music in Hardy's cosmic vision, Mark Asquith; One church, several faiths, no Lord: Thomas Hardy, art and belief, Timothy Hands; Evolution and deep time in selected works of Hardy, Kevin Padian; Hardy's poetic cosmology and the 'new astronomy', Pamela Gossin; Hardy and scientific humanism, Andrew Radford; 'Tune' and 'thought': the uses of music in Hardy's poetry, John Hughes. Part V Critical Approaches: Psychological approaches to Thomas Hardy, Suzanne Keen; Hardy and gender, Judith Mitchell; Hardy and the cinema: 'a plethoric growth in knowledge', Paul J. Niemeyer. Part VI Genre and Case Studies: Hardy's short stories, Sophie Gilmartin; The Dynasts: Hardy's contribution to the epic tradition, Harold Orel; Hardy: the driftiness of tragedy, Dale Kramer; Hardy and masculinity: the case of A Pair of Blue Eyes and Jude the Obscure, Phillip Mallett; Reading absences in Hardy's lyrics: representation and recognition, DeSales Harrison. Part VII Illustrators and Biographers: Illustrating Hardy's novels, Ian Rogerson; Hardy and the biographers, Phillip Mallett. Part VIII The Millennium: Sage Writers in Tribute to Their Muse: 'The proudest songster of them all': some thoughts on three 'everyday' lyrics, Tom Paulin;