| How to Use This Book |
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| Begin by reading the author |
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| How to approach unfamiliar or difficult texts |
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| Using biographical material |
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| Vocabulary |
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| Summary |
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Links with the past and the land |
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Early years and formative experiences |
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9 | (1) |
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Social and Historical Background |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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Hardy as a Victorian thinker |
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18 | (2) |
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How to Approach Hardy's Work |
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Switch off modern sensibilities |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (11) |
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Into Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes |
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26 | (3) |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (2) |
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33 | (1) |
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Major Works: Later Novels |
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The Mayor of Casterbridge |
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
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A central core of 'good' poems |
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Hardy as the poet of loss and longing |
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56 | (3) |
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The world as a 'welter of futile undoing' |
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62 | (2) |
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Critical Approaches to Hardy |
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Flavour of contemporary criticism |
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Leavis and the new critics |
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Raymond Williams and the English novel |
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Wanted: a good Hardy critic |
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Feminist approaches to Hardy |
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Voyeurism of the narrator |
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| Glossary |
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| Chronology of Works |
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| Index |
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