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