Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)

Note on the Text
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biography
The de
finitive work is M. Millgate, Thomas Hardy: A Biography
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 
). The sources for biography include
Hardy’s own autobiography: M. Millgate (ed.), The Life and Work of
Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
(London and Basingstoke: Macmillan,
); R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate (eds.), The Collected Letters of
Thomas Hardy
, 
 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, –); M. Millgate
(ed.), Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
)––fascinating insights into Hardy’s domestic life; James Gibson
(ed.), Thomas Hardy: Interviews and Recollections (London and
Basingstoke: Macmillan 
).
Hardy on Fiction
His contributions to symposiums are to be found in Harold Orel (ed.),
Thomas Hardy’s Personal Writings
(London: Macmillan, 
), –.
Contemporary Reviews
R. G. Cox (ed.), Thomas Hardy: The Critical Heritage (New York: Barnes
and Noble, 
)––a selection of reviews of all Hardy’s novels and some of
his poetry. The reviews by Edmund Gosse and Havelock Ellis are
noteworthy.
Criticism
Books
Books containing relevant material or chapters on Jude the Obscure
include:
Boumelha, Penny, Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and
Narrative Form
(Brighton: Harvester, 
).
Dellamora, R., Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheti-
cism
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 
), chapter .
Gerson, M., Hardy’s Fables of Integrity: Women, Body, Text (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 
).
Goode, J., Thomas Hardy: The O
ffensive Truth (Oxford: Blackwell, ).
Higonnet, M., Feminist Perspectives on Hardy (Urbana, Ill.: University of
Illinois Press, 
).
Ingham, P., Thomas Hardy, A Feminist Reading (Hemel Hempstead:
Harvester 
).

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—— The Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian
Novel
(London: Routledge, 
), chapter .
Miller, J. Hillis, Thomas Hardy: Distance and Desire (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 
).
Millgate, M., Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (London: Bodley
Head, 
).
Morgan, R., Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
(London: Routledge, 
), chapter .
Widdowson, P., Hardy in History: A Study in Literary Sociology (London
and New York: Routledge, 
).
Articles
There have been numerous articles on Jude the Obscure. The following
include a variety of recent approaches relating to class, gender, philosophy
and religion.
Davis, W., ‘Happy Days in Jude the Obscure: Hardy and the Crawford–
Dilke Divorce Case’, Thomas Hardy Journal, 
. (), –.
Dellamora, R., ‘Male Relations in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure’,
Papers on Language and Literature
, 
. (), –.
Farrell, J. P., ‘Crossroads to Community: Jude the Obscure and the
Chronotope of Wessex’, in M. Macovski (ed.), Dialogue and
Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory
(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 
), –.
Freeman, J., ‘Highways and Corn
fields: Space and Time in the Narration
of Jude the Obscure’, Colby Quarterly, 
. (), –.
Goetz, W. R., ‘The Felicity and Infelicity of Marriage in Jude the Obscure’,