TIM ARMSTRONG is Reader in Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the author of Modernism, Technology and the Body (1998), has edited Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (1993), American Bodies (1996) and co-edited Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics (1994).

'Haunted Hardy is a product of much solid scholarship...a welcome addition to...the discussion of Hardy's poetry.' - English Language Teaching

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Supplementarity The Ghosts of Thought The Child in Time The Politics of the Dead History, Catastrophe, Typology Mourning and Intertextuality Notes Index