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16. The Darkening Pastoral: Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd 17. “Wild Regions of Obscurity”: Narrative in The Return of the Native 18. Hardy's “Novels of Ingenuity” Desperate Remedies, The Hand of Ethelberta, and A Laodicean: Rare Hands at Contrivances 19. Hardy's “Romances and Fantasies” A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet-Major, Two on a Tower, and The Well-Beloved: Experiments in Metafiction 20. The Haunted Structures of The Mayor of Casterbridge 21. Dethroning the High Priest of Nature in The Woodlanders 22. Melodrama, Vision, and Modernity: Tess of the d'Urbervilles 23. Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex 24. “…into the hands of pure-minded English girls”: Hardy's Short Stories and the Late Victorian Literary Marketplace 25. Sequence and Series in Hardy's Poetry 26. Hardy's Poems: The Scholarly Situation 27. That's Show Business: Spectacle, Narration, and Laughter in The Dynasts ... log in or subscribe to read full text