New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy

Notes on Contributors - Introduction - 'The Characteristic of all Great Poetry, the General Perfectly Reduced in the Particular': Thomas Hardy; J.Gibson - 'Something More to Be Said': Hardy's Creative Process and the Case of Tess and Jude; P.J.Casagrande - Hardy and the City; M.Slater - 'Thoroughfares of Stones': Hardy's 'Other' Love Poetry; T.Johnson - 'Moments of Vision': Postmodernising Tess of the d'Urbervilles: or, Tess of the d'Urbervilles Faithfully Presented by Peter Widdowson; P.Widdowson - 'Bosh' or: Believing Neither More nor Less; Hardy, George Eliot and God; Lance St John Butler - 'Good Faith, You Do Talk!': Some Features of Hardy's Dialogue; R.Chapman - 'A Bewildered Child and His Conjurors': Hardy and the Ideas of his Time; T.Hands - Conscious Artistry in The Mayor of Casterbridge; C.Raine - Hardy's Vision of the Individual in Tess of the d'Urbervilles; C.P.C.Pettit - Questions Arising from Hardy's Visits to Cornwall; F.B.Pinion - Index