Lecture 1.Expressive Places in 'Far from the Madding Crowd'

Waterston Manor, Puddletown, Dorchester

Oak's Shepherd's Hut

The Maltsters

Fanny Robin, barracks and workhouse

The former workhouse, now hospital, Dorchester

 1. The Great Barn

2. Eventide. The Sheep-shearing Supper

Helen Paterson in The Graphic

3. The Fir Plantation

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

Berger, Sheila. Thomas Hardy and Visual Structures : Framing, Disruption, Process. New York ; London: New York University Press, 1990.

Bullen, J. B. The Expressive Eye : Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.

Byerly, Alison. Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Hardy, Thomas, and Suzanne B. Falck-Yi. Far from the Madding Crowd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Higonnet, Margaret R. The Sense of Sex : Feminist Perspectives on Hardy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Miller, Joseph Hillis. Thomas Hardy : Distance and Desire. [S.l.]: Harvard U Pr., 1970.

Morgan, Rosemarie. "Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy." Routledge, 1988.

———. "Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy." Routledge, 1988.

Lecture 2. Man's Place in Nature: 'The Return of the Native'

Hardy's own map for The Return of the Native

Puddletown Heath behind Hardy's cottage

Jemima Hardy, Hardy's mother and Emma Gifford Hardy's wife

The Heath is personified dominantly in terms of its physiognomy

Rainbarrow or Blackbarrow

Hopkins 'Unconscious of her presence he still went on singing'

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

Fisher, Joe. The Hidden Hardy. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.

Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native, ed. Tony Slade, introd. Penny Boumelha. London. Penguin, 1999.

Irwin, Michael. Reading Hardy's Landscapes. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.

Morgan, Rosemarie. "Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy." Routledge, 1988.

Paterson, John. The Making of the Return of the Native. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978.

Pite, Ralph. Hardy's Geography : Wessex and the Regional Novel. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Sumner, Rosemary. A Route to Modernism : Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000.