FOR FURTHER READING

Biographies

 

Millgate, Michael. Thomas Hardy:A Biography. New York: Random House, 1982.

Turner, Paul. The Life of Thomas Hardy: A Critical Biography. Oxford: Black-well, 1998.

 

 

Primary Materials

 

Collins, Vere H. Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, 1920-1922. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928.

Hardy, Thomas. The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. Edited by James Gibson. New York: Macmillan, 1976.

. Thomas Hardy: Selected Letters. Edited by Michael Millgate. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

. Thomas Hardy’s Public voice: The Essays, Speeches, and Miscellaneous Prose. Edited by Michael Millgate. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.

. The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy. Edited by Michael Millgate. London: Macmillan, 1984.

————The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy. Edited by Lennart A. Björk. New York: New York University Press, 1985.

. Personal Writings: Prefaces, Literary Opinions, Reminiscences. Edited by Harold Orel. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1966.

Roberts, Marguerite, ed. Tess in the Theatre: Two Dramatizations of Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, One by Lorimer Stoddard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950.

 

Background

 

Hopkins, Robert Thurston. Thomas Hardy’s Dorset. Illustrated by E. Harries. London: C. Palmer, 1922.

Kay-Robinson, Denys. The Landscape of Thomas Hardy. With photographs by Simon McBride. Salem, NH: Salem House, 1984.

Pinion, F. B. A Thomas Hardy Dictionary: With Maps and a Chronology. New York: New York University Press, 1989.

 

Critical Studies

 

Bayley, John. An Essay on Hardy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. New York: Chelsea House, 1987

Higonnet, Margaret R., ed. The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Laird, J.T. The Shaping of Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

Miller, J. Hillis. Thomas Hardy: Distance and Desire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Murphy, Patricia. Time Is of the Essence: Temporality, Gender, and the New Woman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Pettit, Charles P. C., ed. Reading Thomas Hardy. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.

Wright,T. R. Hardy and His Readers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.