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THE HIDDEN HARDY Thomas Hardy, aged about 30. Dorset County Museum The Hidden Hardy Joe Fisher Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-1-349-22158-5 ISBN 978-1-349-22156-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22156-1 © Joe Fisher 1992 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 1992 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1992 ISBN 978-0-312-05787-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fisher, Joe. The hidden Hardy / Joe Fisher. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-312-05787-9 1. Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PR4754.F5 1992 823' .8-dc20 90-20637 CIP For Roy Fisher and Barbara Venables Fisher Contents Note on Textual References viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Desperate Remedies (1871): A Trojan Horse 20 2 Far From the Madding Crowd (1874): Priapus in 38 Arcadia 3 The Hand of Ethelberta (1876): Fanny Rampant 63 4 The Return of the Native (1878): Arcadia Overthrown 82 5 A Laodicean (1881): Made of Money (I) 99 6 The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886): Made of Money (II) 115 7 The Woodlanders (1887): The Beginning of the End 136 8 Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891): Gotterdammerung 153 9 Jude the Obscure (1895): High Farce 174 Notes 193 Bibliography 200 Index 203 vii Textual References With the exception of The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, where I use respectively Oxford and Penguin paper back editions, page references given in this text refer to Macmillan paperback editions of Hardy's work. Publication details of these are given in my bibliography. viii Acknowledgements I should like to thank a number of people for their generous help in the preparation of this book. Rhys Garnett, Peter Widdowson, Adrian Poole, Heather Glen, John Barrell and John Goode all read sections of early drafts of my manuscript and offered many valuable (and often salutary) comments and ideas. Beverley Skeggs and Pat Agar have both been unfailing sources of intellectual guidance, support and common sense throughout the project. An acknowledgement of one's parents is often merely a devoir; but in this case it represents my gratitude for the very active part they both played in developing the main arguments of this text. I am also grateful to Roger Ebbatson for permission to quote from unpublished material, and to Margaret Cannon, my editor at Macmillan, for her unflagging patience and support. By far my greatest debt is to Tony Tanner, without whom this work would simply not have been done. Errors and opinions are, of course, my own. ix 'Never speak disrespectfully of society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.' Lady Bracknelt in The Importance of Being Earnest x
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