NEW

Thomas Hardy Remembered

Martin Ray, University of Aberdeen, UK

The Nineteenth Century Series

“…Ray breaks new ground…This is not only a pioneering work but also a riveting read, unfolding a ‘Hardy’ before our eyes via that most persuasive of all forms of biographical writing, the first-hand account—in this instance, the unmediated accounts of Hardy’s literary (and oft-opinionated) contemporaries.”

—Rosemarie Morgan, Yale University,

and President, Thomas Hardy Association

Thomas Hardy Remembered assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Hardy, most of which are being reprinted for the first time. They range from close personal reflections by old friends such as Sir George Douglas, J.M. Barrie, and Edmund Gosse, to fleeting glimpses by strangers.

Contents: Thomas Hardy: a chronology; Introduction; Interviews; Hardy’s boyhood; Courtship; In the eighties; The nineties; 1900–1910; 1911–1917; ‘Life’s decline’: 1918–1920; ‘I looked back’: 1921–1925; ‘The last scene’: 1926–1928;
‘A death-day recalled’; Index.

April 2007              c. 350 pages         

Hardback               978-0-7546-3973-2
c. $99.95

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Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells

Christine DeVine, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

The Nineteenth Century Series

Includes 7 b&w illustrations

2005        170 pages              Hardback
978-0-7546-5150-5 $89.95

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The Secret Life of Thomas Hardy

‘Retaliatory Fiction’

Edward Neill

The Nineteenth Century Series

2004        186 pages              Hardback
978-0-7546-3841-4 $99.95

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NEW

Thomas Hardy’s Novel Universe

Astronomy, Cosmology and Gender
in the Post-Darwinian World

Pamela Gossin, University of Texas, Dallas

The Nineteenth Century Series

“…skillfully crafted and beautifully written…provides a new approach to interpreting Hardy’s…”

—Marilyn Ogilvie, University of Oklahoma

In the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy’s writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin offers complex and inspired readings of seven novels that enrich previous Darwinian, feminist and formalist perspectives on his work. She shows that Hardy’s personal synthesis of ancient and modern astronomy with mythopoetic and scientific cosmologies enabled him to construct new myths by which his readers might comprehend their relationship to the universe

and one another.

Contents: Author’s preface. Part I: Critical Methodology, Literary and Historical Background. Part II: Reading Hardy’s Novel Universe. Bibliography; Index.

Includes 11 b&w illustrations

April 2007              c. 228 pages         
Hardback               978-0-7546-0336-8
c. $99.95

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Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time

Andrew Radford, Durham University, UK

The Nineteenth Century Series

2003        272 pages              Hardback
978-0-7546-0778-6 $99.95

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Thomas Hardy’s ‘Facts’ Notebook

A Critical Edition

Edited by William Greenslade, University of the West
of England, UK

The Nineteenth Century Series

2004        402 pages              Hardback
978-1-84014-235-8 $99.95

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