Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- PRELUDE -- The Poor Man and the Lady -- PART ONE: APPRENTICESHIP -- 1. Desperate Remedies -- 2. "Ce Saxon autodidacte": A matter of Education -- 3. Under the Greenwood Tree -- 4....
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- PRELUDE -- The Poor Man and the Lady -- PART ONE: APPRENTICESHIP -- 1. Desperate Remedies -- 2. "Ce Saxon autodidacte": A matter of Education -- 3. Under the Greenwood Tree -- 4. Bockhampton and St Juliot: The Exploitation of Autobiography -- 5. A Pair of Blue Eyes -- PART TWO: ACHIEVEMENT -- 1. Far from the Madding Crowd -- 2. Puddletown into Weatherbury: The Genesis of Wessex -- 3. The Hand of Ethelberta -- 4. On Native Grounds: Kegan Paul and William Barnes -- 5. The Return of the Native -- PART THREE: RECESSION -- 1. The Trumpet-Major -- 2. The Uses of a Regional Past -- 3. A Laodicean -- 4. Hardy's Laodiceanism: Politics and Ideas -- 5. Two on a Tower -- PART FOUR: RENEWAL -- 1. Max Gate -- 2. "The Dorsetshire Labourer -- 3. The Mayor ofCasterbridge -- 4. The Evolution of Wessex -- 5. The Woodlanders -- PART FIVE: FULFILMENT -- 1. Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- 2. Candour in English Fiction -- 3. The Well-Beloved -- 4. Hardy and the Theatre -- 5. Jude the Obscure -- AFTERWORD -- The End of Prose -- NOTES -- INDEX.
