"Jude the Obscure"

Designed to complement the original "Casebook" series, each "New Casebook" consists of a sequence of carefully chosen essays and extracts dealing with the central critical issues raised by the texts being studied. This volume looks at Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure".

Designed to complement the original "Casebook" series, each "New Casebook" consists of a sequence of carefully chosen essays and extracts dealing with the central critical issues raised by the texts being studied, and which illustrate some of the more striking features of new critical thinking. This volume looks at the Thomas Hardy novel "Jude the Obscure".

Acknowledgements General Editor's Preface
Introduction
P. Boumelha Jude the Obscure
P. Ingham Jude the Obscure: Reading and the Spirit of the Law
R. Saldivar Jude the Obscure: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form
P. Boumelha Jude the Obscure: The Return of the Pagan
C. L. Peterson Hardy's Fist
J. Goode Ill Wit and Sick Tragedy: Jude the Obscure
C. Brooke-Rose Male Relations in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
R. Dellamora Jude the Obscure and the Taboo of Virginity
M. A. Dibattista Jude the Obscure: What Does a Man Want? M. Garson Jude Fawley and the New Man
T. Dolin Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index