Thomas Hardy and History

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: APPROACHES TO HARDY AND HISTORY.- CHAPTER 2 The Liberal Anglican idea of history.- CHAPTER 3 Horace Moule and 'the evils of our era'.- CHAPTER 4 Walter Bagehot and the writing of history.- CHAPTER 5 Essays and Reviews: Frederick Temple and Baden Powell.- CHAPTER 6 Auguste Comte.- CHAPTER 7 George Drysdale and the Radical Hardy.- CHAPTER 8 John Stuart Mill.- CHAPTER 9 The Poor Man and the Lady.- CHAPTER 10 Desperate Remedies and Under the Greenwood Tree.- CHAPTER 11 The Franco-Prussian War.- CHAPTER 12 Satire and Romance: A Pair of Blue Eyes.- CHAPTER 13 'Lead kindly light': Satire and History in Far from the Madding Crowd .- CHAPTER 14 Hardy and Patriotism.- CHAPTER 15 Crisis of Civilisation.- CHAPTER 16 Meliorism in The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Woodlanders .- CHAPTER 17 Stopping Wedding Guests.- CHAPTER 18 LAST WORD.- FURTHER READING.