Book contents
- Reading Thomas Hardy
- Reading Writers and Their Work
- Reading Thomas Hardy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Shaping Hardy’s Art
- Chapter 2 Hardy and Darwin
- Chapter 3 The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Interlude
- Chapter 4 From Mindless Matter to the Art of the Mind
- Chapter 5 The Poetry of the Novels
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 2 - Hardy and Darwin
An Enchanting Hardy?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 June 2017
- Reading Thomas Hardy
- Reading Writers and Their Work
- Reading Thomas Hardy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Shaping Hardy’s Art
- Chapter 2 Hardy and Darwin
- Chapter 3 The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Interlude
- Chapter 4 From Mindless Matter to the Art of the Mind
- Chapter 5 The Poetry of the Novels
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
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- Reading Thomas Hardy , pp. 26 - 46Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017