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The Return of the Native

Contents

  • The Text of The Return of the Native
  • A Map of the Egdon Heath
  • The Return of the Native
  • Background
  • Composition, Publication, and Scholarship
    • Richard L. Purdy, [Publication of the Novel]
    • John Paterson, [Composition and Revision of the Novel]
    • Carl J. Weber, [Scholarship on the Novel]
  • Hardy’s Life and Opinions
    • From Hardy’s Autobiography
      - [On The Return of the Native]
      - Philosophical Ideas in Fiction
      - Letters to Alfred Noyes
      - [On Fiction and Art]
    • From Life and Art by Thomas Hardy
      - The Profitable Reading of Fiction
      - Candour in English Fiction
      - The Science of Fiction
      - [On English Marriage Laws]
      - [On Writers and the State]
  • Hardy’s Poems
    • By the Barrows
    • The Moth-Signal
    • The Roman Road
    • On a Heath
    • The Sheep Boy
    • The Bride-Night Fire
    • The Night of the Dance
    • The Pedestrian
    • A Meeting with Despair
    • To the Moon
    • At Moonrise and Onwards
    • Nobody Comes
  • Hardy and Folklore
  • Criticism
  • Hardy’s Contemporary Critics
    • From The Athenaeum, November 23, 1878
    • From The Athenaeum, November 30, 1878
    • From The Saturday Review, January 4, 1879
    • From Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, March, 1879
    • From Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, (New York), March, 1879
  • Critical Essays
    • D. H. Lawrence, [The Psychology of the Characters]
    • D. H. Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters
    • Joseph Warren Beach, [The Structure of The Return of the Native]
    • Frank Chapman, [Hardy’s Faults as a Novelist]
    • Allen Tate, Hardy’s Philosophic Metaphors
    • Katherine Anne Porter, [Hardy and T. S. Eliot]
    • Donald Davidson, The Traditional Basis of Thomas Hardy’s Fiction
    • Lord David Cecil, [Hardy’s Use of Literary Convention]
    • Harvey Curtis Webster, [Pessimism in The Return of the Native]
    • R. W. Stallman, Hardy’s Hour-Glass Novel
    • John Holloway, [Philosophy, Image, and Language in Hardy’s Fiction]
    • George Wing, [Clym Yeobright and Egdon Heath]
    • Charles Child Walcutt, [Action and Character in The Return of the Native]
  • Selected Bibliography

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