Shanta Dutta is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.

...Dutta's intelligent and eloquent study of the novelist's ambivalent attitute toward women offers material not otherwise obtainable... Choice

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Critics' Debate The Hand of Ethelberta The Return of the Native Two on a Tower The Woodlanders The Short Stories of the 1890s Jude the Obscure Hardy, his Wives, and his Literary Protégées Hardy and Some Contemporary Female Writers Conclusion: 'A Confused Heap of Impressions' Notes Index

Shanta Dutta is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.

...Dutta's intelligent and eloquent study of the novelist's ambivalent attitute toward women offers material not otherwise obtainable... Choice

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Critics' Debate The Hand of Ethelberta The Return of the Native Two on a Tower The Woodlanders The Short Stories of the 1890s Jude the Obscure Hardy, his Wives, and his Literary Protégées Hardy and Some Contemporary Female Writers Conclusion: 'A Confused Heap of Impressions' Notes Index

Shanta Dutta is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta.

...Dutta's intelligent and eloquent study of the novelist's ambivalent attitute toward women offers material not otherwise obtainable... Choice

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Critics' Debate The Hand of Ethelberta The Return of the Native Two on a Tower The Woodlanders The Short Stories of the 1890s Jude the Obscure Hardy, his Wives, and his Literary Protégées Hardy and Some Contemporary Female Writers Conclusion: 'A Confused Heap of Impressions' Notes Index