It is my contention that the novels of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy embody a post-
Darwinian world view in which all of nature is united, in which man and the earthworm and …

Examines the mode of imagery in some novels of Thomas Hardy. Merger of the balanced
polarity of light and darkness with the fine tension between animate and inanimate modes of …

In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, the heroine is introduced as an innocent in her natural setting," a
mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience", though this is soon destroyed. Hardy …

Hardy's attitude toward Nature is more complex than an exclu sive concentration on his
official" philosophy" would suggest. Hardy is quite aware that there are more things on the …

Reading Hardy's Landscapes locates the essential energy of the novels in the descriptive
details as much as in the story. The emphasis is on the author's habits of vision and …

THE novelist, as distinguished from the romancewriter, must grapple with the problems of
human character and conduct; and though he approaches these problems as an observer …

Even casual readers of Thomas Hardy soon begin to sense that in his fiction the customary
setting, the natural world, operates a good deal more forcefully than as sheer backdrop to …

In his essay,'Candour in English Fiction', Thomas Hardy writes:... in perceiving that taste [in
literature] is arriving anew at the point of high tragedy, writers are conscious that its revived …

SOMEWHERE near the beginning of the second decade of the present century, it began to
be realized in modern criticism that the method of saying it was nothing compared to the …

Everything, even in fiction, has to happen somewhere; but there is no place more
remarkable in the rich history of the Victorian novel than Egdon Heath. Hardy wrote at the …