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.