Thomas Hardy's Short Stories

Juliette Berning Schaefer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican University, USA, and Siobhan Craft Brownson is Associate Professor of English at Winthrop University, USA.

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Part One: Periodical Publication

1 Neither Tales nor Short Stories: Issues of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing in A

Group of Noble Dames

Graham Law

2 "Moonlight Nights": Hardy, Christmas, and the Illustrated London News

Siobhan Craft Brownson

Part Two: Gender Relationships

3"Getting life-leased at all cost": Marriage in Hardy’s Late Short Stories

Suzanne Flynn

4 Pregnant by a Portrait: The Dynamics of Desire for Hardy’s

"Imaginative Woman"

Deborah Manion

5"Imaginative Sentiment": Love, Letters, and Literacy in Thomas Hardy’s Shorter Fiction

Karin Koehler

Part Three: Community Relationships

6 Hardy and Humor: The Mores of Wessex

Juliette Berning Schaefer

7 Love, Deception, and Disguise in A Few Crusted Characters

JoAnna Stephens Mink

Part Four: Narrative Technique

8 "To Correct the Misrelation": Reading Hardy’s Wessex Tales

Neelanjana Basu

9 Representations of the Body in Hardy’s Life’s Little Ironies

Carolina Paganine

10 Hardy’s Mercurial Narrator: "Breaking the Frame" in "A Changed Man"

Keith Callis

Notes on Contributors

Index