Contents
- New selections are highlighted in red
- The Text of The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Preface
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Backgrounds and Contexts
- Composition
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- Christine Winfield, The Manuscript of Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge
- Hardy’s Non-Fictional Writings
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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