Jane Thomas is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Hull.

Thomas's analysis makes clear that Hardy's minor novels offer readers the same passionate, argumentative spirit that animates the major ones... Victorian Studies

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Hardy and 'The Thinking World' The Question of 'Woman' Desperate Remedies (1871): The 'Martyrdom of Self-Conceit' A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873): Policing the Self The Hand of Ethelberta (1876): The Limits of Resistance A Laodicean (1886): Power and Agency Two on a Tower (1886): 'The Artificial System of Things' The Well-Beloved (1897): Galatea's Revenge Notes Bibliography Index

Jane Thomas is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Hull.

Thomas's analysis makes clear that Hardy's minor novels offer readers the same passionate, argumentative spirit that animates the major ones... Victorian Studies

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Hardy and 'The Thinking World' The Question of 'Woman' Desperate Remedies (1871): The 'Martyrdom of Self-Conceit' A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873): Policing the Self The Hand of Ethelberta (1876): The Limits of Resistance A Laodicean (1886): Power and Agency Two on a Tower (1886): 'The Artificial System of Things' The Well-Beloved (1897): Galatea's Revenge Notes Bibliography Index

Jane Thomas is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Hull.

Thomas's analysis makes clear that Hardy's minor novels offer readers the same passionate, argumentative spirit that animates the major ones... Victorian Studies

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Hardy and 'The Thinking World' The Question of 'Woman' Desperate Remedies (1871): The 'Martyrdom of Self-Conceit' A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873): Policing the Self The Hand of Ethelberta (1876): The Limits of Resistance A Laodicean (1886): Power and Agency Two on a Tower (1886): 'The Artificial System of Things' The Well-Beloved (1897): Galatea's Revenge Notes Bibliography Index