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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| IntroductionvKeith Wilson | |
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| The Life | |
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| Hardy as Biographical Subject | |
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| The Intellectual Context | |
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| Hardy and Philosophy | |
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| Hardy and Darwin: An Enchanting Hardy? | |
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| Hardy and the Place of Culture | |
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| "The Hard Case of the Would-be-Religious": Hardy and the Church from Early Life to Later Years | |
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| Thomas Hardy's Notebooks | |
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| "Genres are not to be mixed.... I will not mix them": Discourse, Ideology, and Generic Hybridity in Hardy's Fiction | |
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| Hardy and his Critics: Gender in the Interstices | |
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| The Socio-Cultural Context | |
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| "His Country": Hardy in the Rural | |
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| Thomas Hardy of London | |
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| "A Thickness of Wall": Hardy and Class | |
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| Reading Hardy through Dress: The Case of Far From the Madding Crowd | |
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| Hardy and Romantic Love | |
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| Hardy and the Visual Arts | |
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| Hardy and Music: Uncanny Sounds | |
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| The Works | |
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| The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd | |
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| "Wild Regions of Obscurity": Narrative in The Return of the Native | |
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| Hardy's "Novels of Ingenuity" Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A. Laodicean: Rare Hands at Contrivances | |
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| Hardy's "Romances and Fantasies" A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet-Major, Two on a Tower, and The Well-Beloved: Experiments in Metafiction | |
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| The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
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| Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders | |
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| Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity: Tess of the d'Urbervilles | |
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| Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex | |
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| "... into the hands of pure-minded English girls": Hardy's Short Stories and the Late Victorian Literary Marketplace | |
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| Sequence and Series in Hardy's Poetry | |
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| Hardy's Poems: The Scholarly Situation | |
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| That's Show Business: Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts | |
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| Hardy the Modern | |
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| Modernist Hardy: Hand-Writing in The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
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| Inhibiting the Voice: Thomas Hardy and Modern Poetics | |
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| Hardy's Heirs: D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys | |
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| Index | |