Suggestions for Further Reading
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern
Critical Interpretations: Thomas Hardy's The
Mayor of Casterbridge. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
Casagrande, Peter J. Unity
in Hardy's Novels: Repetitive Symmetries. Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, 1982.
Daleski, H. M. Thomas
Hardy and the Paradoxes of Love. Columbia: University of
Missouri Press, 1997.
Edwards, Duane D. “The
Mayor of Casterbridge as Aeschylean Tragedy,” Studies
in the Novel. 4 (1972): 608–618.
Guerard, Albert J. Thomas
Hardy: The Novels and Stories. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 1949.
Howe, Irving. Thomas
Hardy. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1966.
Kramer, Dale. “Character
and the Cycle of Change in The Mayor of Casterbridge,”
in Tennessee Studies in Literature, vol. 16 (Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1971). 111–120.
Lerner, Laurence. Thomas
Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge: Tragedy or Social History. London:
Sussex University Press, 1975.
Mickelson, Anne Z. Thomas
Hardy's Women and Men: The Defeat of Nature. Metuchen,
New Jersey: Scarecrow, 1976.
Paterson, John. “The
Mayor of Casterbridge as Tragedy,” Victorian Studies 3
(1959): 151–172.
Taft, Michael. “Hardy's
Manipulation of Folklore and Literary Imagination: The Case of the
Wife Sale in The Mayor of Casterbridge.” Studies
in the Novel 13 (1981): 399–407.
