Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-461).
Contents
CRITICISM -- Contemporary Reception -- From "The Athenaeum" -- From "The Saturday Review" / George Saintsbury -- From "The Spectator" / Richard Holt Hutton -- From "Harper's New Monthly Magazine" / [William Dean Howells] -- -- Modern Criticism -- [Hardy's Impression of Life] / Virginia Woolf -- [Henchard's self-condemnation] / Albert J. Guerard -- "The Mayor of Casterbridge" and the old testament's first book of Samuel / Julian Moynahan -- "The Mayor of Casterbridge" as tragedy / John Paterson -- [The role of Elizabeth-Jane] / Michael Millgate -- The struggle of men / Irving Howe -- [A nightmare of frustrated desire] / J. Hillis Miller -- A man and his history / Ian Gregor -- The unmanning of the Mayor of Casterbridge / Elaine Showalter -- [Reversing the real] / George Levine -- Degenerate spaces / William Greenslade -- [The paradoxes of love] / H.M. Daleski -- [Narrative annexes: Mixen Lane] / Suzanne Keen
