Hardy, Thomas

1. In Alcorn, John The nature novel from Hardy to Lawrence. New York : Columbia University Press, 1977. pp 1-24, 73-76, 80-86. See also index.
   Criticism -- Novels -- Far From the Madding Crowd -- Jude the Obscure

2. In Allen, Walter The English novel: a short critical history. N.Y., Dutton [c.1954]. pp. 285-303.
   Criticism -- Novels -- Jude the Obscure -- Return of the Native

3. In Alvarez, A. Beyond All This Fiddle . New York, Random House, 1969. pp. 178-187.
   Criticism -- Jude the Obscure

4. In Barzun, Jacques. The Energies of Art. New York, Harper, 1956. pp. 23-48.
   Criticism -- Works -- Realism in Literature -- Romanticism

5. In Bayley, John. The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988. pg. 134-148.
   Criticism -- Short Stories -- "An Imaginative Woman" -- "A Mere Interlude" -- "On The Western Circuit" -- "The Son's Veto"

6. In Blackmur, R. P. The expense of greatness . Gloucester, Mass. Peter Smith, 1958 [c1940]. pp. 37-73.
   Criticism -- Poetry

7. In Blackmur, R. P. Form and Value in Modern Poetry. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957 [c1952]. pp. 253-268.
   Criticism -- Poetry -- "In the Days of Crinoline" -- "Last Poems of a Dumb Friend" -- "The Moth-Signal" -- "One Who Knew" -- "The Roman Gravemounds" -- "Seen by the Waits" -- "She Hears the Storm" -- "The Telegram" -- "The Walk" -- "The Workbox"

8. In Bloom, Harold, ed. Edwardian and Georgian Fiction. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005. pp. 172-174, 217-233.
   Criticism -- Jude the Obscure

9. In Boyd, Ernest. Literary Blasphemies. New York, Greenwood Press, 1969. pp. 227-255.
   Biography -- Criticism -- Works --

10. In Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1994. pp. 33-43.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Jude the Obscure -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles

11. In Buckley, Jerome Hamilton. Season of youth: the Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1974. pp. 162-185.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Jude the Obscure

12. In Calder, Jenni. Women and marriage in Victorian fiction. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976. pp. 195-197.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Jude the Obscure -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

13. In Carnegie Institute of Technology. Six Novelists. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1959. pp. 41-52.
    Criticism -- Works -- Jude the Obscure -- Return of the Native

14. Clifford, Emma. "War and Peace and The Dynasts." In Modern Philology, Volume 54, August 1956, pp. 33-44.
    Criticism -- Hardy, Thomas -- Tolstoy, Leo -- The Dynasts -- War and Peace

15. In Collins, Nancy. The facts of fiction. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., inc. [c1933]. pp. 216-227
    Criticism -- Novels -- Jude the Obscure -- Tess of the d'Ubervilles

16. In Davidson, Donald. Still Rebels, still Yankees and other essays. Louisiana State University Press [1957]. pp. 43-83.
    Criticism -- Novels -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

17. In Dobree, Bonamy. The lamp and the lute: studies in six modern authors. New York, Russell & Russell, 1963. pp. 21-44.
    Criticism -- Works

18. In Drew, Elizabeth. The novel: a modern guide to fifteen English masterpieces. Norton [1964, c1963]. pp. 141-155.
    Criticism -- Far from the Madding Crowd

19. In Edgar, Pelham. The Art of the Novel. New York, Macmillan, 1933. pp. 164-171.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Woodlanders

20. In Edwards, Lee R. Psyche as hero: female heroism and fictional form. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row, c1984. pp. 109-112, 118-123.
    Criticism -- Jude the Obscure

21. In Elliott, G. R. The cycle of modern poetry. New York, Russell & Russell, 1965 [i.e.1966,c1929]. pp. 91-111.
    Criticism -- The Dynasts -- Poetry

22. In Faverty, Frderic, E.Your Literary Heritage. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1959. pp. 166-168.
    Criticism -- Poetry

23. In Felder, Deborah. Bookshelf of Our Own. New York : Citadel Press, c2005. pp. 68-72.
    Criticism -- Tess of the d'Ubervilles

24. In Fleishman, Avrom. The English Historical Novel. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. pp. 233-258.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Dynasts -- Tess of the d'Ubervilles -- The Trumpet-Major

25. In Fleishman, Avrom. Fiction and the Ways of Knowing: Essays on British Novels. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1978. pp. 110-122.
    Criticism -- The Return of the Native

26. In Follett, Helen Thomas and Follett, Wilson Some modern novelists. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1967]. pp. 127-150.
    Criticism -- Works

27. In Fowles, John. Wormholes. New York : H. Holt, 1998. pp. 136-151.
    Criticism -- The Well-Beloved

28. In Friedman, Alan The turn of the novel. New York, Oxford University Press, 1966. pp. 38-74.
    Criticism -- Works -- Far From the Madding Crowd -- Jude the Obscure -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles

29. In Frye, Prosser Hall. Literary Reviews and Criticisms . Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1968. pp. 104-113.
    Criticism --Works -- Naturalism in Literature -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles

30. In Gillie, Christopher Character in English literature. Barnes & Noble [1965]. pp. 163-176.
    Criticism -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

31. In Goodin, George, ed. The English novel in the nineteenth century: essays on the literary mediation of human values. Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1972]. pp. 196-213.
    Criticism -- Novels

32. In Gregor, Ian and Nicholas, Brian The moral and the story. London, Faber and Faber [1962]. pp. 123-150.
    Criticism -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles

33. In Hardy, Barbara. The Appropriate Form. University of London: Athlone Press, 1964. pp. 70-75.
    Criticism -- Jude the Obscure

34. In Harper, Howard M. and Edge, Charles, eds. The classic British novel. Athens, University of Georgia Press [1972]. pp. 143-165.
    Criticism -- Jude the Obscure

35. In Holloway, John. The Charted Mirror. New York, Horizon Press, 1962. pp. 94-117.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Tess of D'Ubervilles

36. In Howe, Irving, ed. Modern literary criticism. Boston, Beacon Press [1958]. pp. 299-309, 228-350.
    Criticism -- Works -- Novels -- Poetry

37. In Howells, William D. Criticism and Fiction and Other Essays. New York, New York University Press, 1959. pp. 150-153.
    Criticism -- Jude the Obscure

38. In James, Henry. Literary Criticism, Vol. 1 .New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, c1984. pp. 1043-1048.
    Criticism -- Far From the Madding Crowd

39. In Jenkins, Alice, ed. Rereading Victorian Fiction. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000. pp. 163-165, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Jude the Obscure

40. In Karl, Frederick A reader's guide to the nineteenth century British novel. [New York, Noonday Press, 1965, c1964]. pp. 295-332.
    Criticism -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

41. In Kincaid, James R. Annoying the Victorians. New York : Routledge, 1995. pp. 233-250.
    Criticism -- Jude the Obscure

42. In Kirk, Rudolf, ed. Essays in Literary History . New Brunswick, N. J., Rutgers University Press, 1960. pp. 197-216.
    Criticism -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles

43. In Kronenberger, Louis. Novelists on Novelists . Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books, 1962. pp. 281-305.
    Criticism -- Works -- Return of the Native -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles --

44. In Kuhn, Reinhard. Corruption in Paradise; the Child in Western Literature. Hanover, N.H. : Published for Brown University Press by University Press of New England, c1982. pp. 32-36.
    Criticism -- Children in Literature -- Jude the Obscure

45. In Laird, John Philosophical incursions into English literature. New York, Russell & Russell, 1962. pp. 187-204.
    Criticism -- The Dynasts

46. In Lodge, David. Language of Fiction . London, Routledge & K. Paul, 1966. pp. 164-188.
    Criticism -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles

47. In Lynd, Robert. Old and New Masters. London, T.F. Unwin ltd. 1919. pp. 234-249.
    Criticism -- Poetry

48. In McCullough, Bruce Representative English novelists. New York, London, Harper & brothers [1946]. pp.231-249.
    Criticism -- The Return of the Native

49. Malton, Sara. "'The Woman Shall Bear Her Iniquity': Death as Social Discipline in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native."In Studies in the Novel, Volume 32, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 147-164.
    Criticism -- Death in Literature -- The Return of the Native

50. In Mizener, Arthur The Sense of Life in the Modern Novel. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1964, c1963. pp. 55-78.
    Criticism -- Jude the Obscure --

51. In Muller, Herbert. Modern Fiction. New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Company 1937. pp. 136-158.
    Criticism -- Works -- Jude the Obscure -- The Return of the Native -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles

52. In O'Connor, Frank. The Mirror in the Roadway . New York, Knopf, 1956. pp. 237-250.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

53. In Orel, Harold. The Victorian Short Story. Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986. pp. 96-114.
    Criticism -- Works -- Short Stories -- "Candour in English Fiction" -- A Group of Noble Dames -- "The Profitable Reading of Fiction" "The Son's Veto" -- "Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four"

54. In Parrinder, Patrick Nation and Novel : the English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. pp. 277-285, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Jude the Obscure -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles

55. In Porter, Katherine Anne. Collected Essays and Occasional Writings. New York: Delacorte Press, 1970. pp. 3-13.
    Criticism -- Works

56. In Potts, Abbie Findlay. The Elegiac Mode. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1967. pp. 319-357.
    Criticism -- Poetry

57. In Ragussis, Michael Acts of naming: the family plot in fiction. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. pp. 135-164.
    Criticism -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles

58. In Ramazani, Jahan. Poetry of Mourning. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994. pp. 33-67.
    Criticism -- Elegiac Poetry -- "After a Journey" -- "Bereft" -- "The Convergence of the Twain" -- "The Darkling Thrush" -- "Drummer Hodge" -- "A Figure in the Scene" -- "A Forgotten Miniature" -- "God's Funeral" -- "The Going" -- "The Haunter" -- `"I Found Her Out There" -- "Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary" -- "On a Discovered Curl of Hair" -- "The Phantom Horsewoman" -- "Places" -- Poems of 1912-1913 -- "The Spell of the Rose" -- "V.R. 1819-1901" -- "Voice" -- "Where the Picnic Was" -- "Why Did I Sketch" -- "Without Ceremony" -- "Your Last Drive"

59. In Rathburn, Robert C. and Steinmann, Martin From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press [1958]. pp. 234-245.
    Criticism -- Works --

60. In Reilly, Joseph. Of Books and Men. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press 1968, c1942. pp. 117-129.
    Criticism -- Short Stories -- "The Duchess of Hamptonshire" -- "Fellow-Townsmen -- "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" --

61. In Ricks, Christoper B. Essays in Appreciation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. pp. 235-244.
    Criticism -- "A Spellbound Palace

62. In Ross, Julian L. Philosophy in Literature . Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1949. pp. 215-218.
    Criticism -- Naturalism in Literature -- The Return of the Native --

63. In Schorer, Mark, ed. Criticism. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1958. pp. 182-187.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "Nature's Questioning"

64. In Schorer, Mark, ed. Modern British Fiction: Essays in Criticism. New York, Oxford University Press, 1961. pp. 10-64.
    Criticism -- Jude the Obscure -- Mayor of Casterbridge -- Tess of the D'Ubervilles

65. In Schwarz, Daniel R. The Transformation of the English Novel. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1989. pp. 29-67.
    Criticism -- Works --

66. In Shapiro, Charles, ed. Twelve original essays on great English novels. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1960. pp. 153-174.
    Criticism -- The Return of the Native

67. In Stevenson, Lionel, ed. Victorian fiction: a guide to research. New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1980, c1964. pp. 349-387.
    Criticism -- Novels --

68. In Stewart. J. I. M. Eight Modern Writers Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963. pp. 19-70.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Poetry -- Jude the Obscure -- The Mayor of Casterbridge -- A Pair of Blue Eyes -- The Return of the Native -- Tess of the D'Ubervilles

69. In Strachey, Lytton. Literary Essays. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. pp. 220-225,
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries

70. In Stubbs, Patricia Women and fiction: feminism and the novel, 1880-1920. Brighton [Eng.] : Harvester Press; New York : Barnes & Noble, 1979. pp. 58-87.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Jude the Obscure -- Tess of D'Ubervilles -- Return of the Native -- The Woodlanders

71. In Tate, Alan. Collected Essays. Denver, A. Swallow, 1959. pp. 185-196.
    Criticism -- Works -- Poetry -- "Nature's Questioning" --

72. In Van Doren, Mark. The Happy Critic. New York : Hill and Wang, 1961. pp. 50-70.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- "The Blinded Bird" -- "The Burghers" -- "The Chapel-Organist" -- "The Chevel-Glass" -- "Dance at the Phoenix" -- "The Darkling Thrush" -- "The Garden Seat" -- "The Head Above the Fog" -- "Her Death and After" -- "Let Me Enjoy -- "A Maiden's Pledge" -- "The Moth-Signal" -- "Nature's Questioning" -- "Near Lanivet, 1872" -- "The Noble Lady's Tale" -- "One We Know" -- "The Sacrilege -- "The Statue of Liberty" -- "A Sunday Morning Tragedy" -- "A Trampwoman's Tragedy"

73. In Van Ghent, Dorothy. The English Novel: Form and Function>. New York, Rinehart, 1953. pp. 195-210.
    Criticism -- Tess of D'Ubervilles

74. In Vickery, John B., ed. Myth and Literature: Contemporary Theory and Practice. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1966. pp. 289-298.
    Criticism -- The Return of the Native

75. In Wagenknecht, Edward. Cavalcade of the English Novel. New York, Holt, 1954. pp. 352-372.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works --

76. Wagner, Geoffrey Five for Freedom: a Study of Feminism in Fiction. Rutherford [N.J.] Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 1973, c1972. pp. 183-211.
    Criticism -- Tess of D'Ubervilles

77. In Walcutt, Charles Child. Man's Changing Mask. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1966. pp. 159-176.
    Criticism -- The Return of the Native

78. In Weygandt, Cornelius. The Time of Yeats. New York, Russell & Russell, 1969. pp. 261-283.
    Criticism -- Poetry

79. In Williams, Oscar, ed. Master Poems of the English Language. New York : Trident Press, 1966. pp. 788-790.
    Criticism -- "The Darkling Thrush"

80. In Woolf, Virginia. Collected Essays, Volume 1. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. pp. 256-266.
    Criticism -- Novels

81. In Woolf, Virigina. The Second Common Reader . New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, c1932. pp. 266-280.
    Criticism -- Works -- Far From the Madding Crowd -- Jude the Obscure

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