TY - BOOK AU - Kramer, Dale TI - The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy: SN - 978-0-521-14316-5 U1 - 823.8 23 PY - 1999/// CY - New Delhi PB - Cambridge University Press N1 - 1. Thomas Hardy: the biographical sources 2. Wessex 3. Art and aesthetics 4. The influence of religion, science, and philosophy on Hardy's writings 5. Hardy and critical theory 6. Thomas Hardy and matters of gender 7. Variants on genre: The return of the native, the mayor of casterbridge, the hand of ethelberta 8. The patriarchy of class 9. The radical aesthetic of Tess of the d'Urbervilles 10. Hardy and readers: Jude the obscure 11. Hardy as a ninetenth-century poet 12. The modernity of Thomas Hardy's poetry ER -