Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge
Second Edition


A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION


    CONTENTS (+ = new to the Second Edition)

    +Preface to the Second Edition

    A Note on the Text

    The Text of The Mayor of Casterbridge
    Preface
    The Mayor of Casterbridge

    Backgrounds and Contexts

      Composition
      Christine Winfield * The Manuscript of Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge
      Hardy's Non-Fictional Writings
      + From The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
      + [Dialect in the Novel]
      + From The Dorsetshire Labourer
      + From The Profitable Reading of Fiction
      + From Candour in English Fiction
      + From General Preface to the Novels and Poems
      Hardy's Wessex
      Map of the Wessex of the Novel and Poems
      Map of Casterbridge and Durnover (circa 1848)
      Place Names in The Mayor of Casterbridge
      + A Note on the Corn Laws
      + Michael Millgate * The Evolution of Wessex

    Criticism

      Contemporary Reception
      From The Athenaeum
      [George Saintsbury] * From The Saturday Review
      [Richard Holt Hutton] * From The Spectator
      [William Dean Howells] * From Harper's New Monthly Magazine
      Modern Criticism
      Virginia Woolf * [Hardy's Impression of Life]
      Albert J. Guerard * [Henchard's Self-Condemnation]
      Julian Moynahan * The Mayor of Casterbridge and the Old Testament's First Book of Samuel
      John Paterson * The Mayor of Casterbridge as Tragedy
      + Michael Millgate * [The Role of Elizabeth-Jane]
      Irving Howe * The Struggles of Men
      J. Hillis Miller * [A Nightmare of Frustrated Desire]
      Ian Gregor * A Man and His History
      + Elaine Showalter * The Unmanning of the Mayor of Casterbridge
      + George Levine * [Reversing the Real]
      + William Greenslade * Degenerate Spaces
      + H. M. Daleski * [The Paradoxes of Love]
      + Suzanne Keen * [Narrative Annexes: Mixen Lane]

    + Thomas Hardy: A Chronology

    Selected Bibliography

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