Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music

1. Introduction
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2. The Road to Norcombe Hill: Hardy’s Musical Evolution
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3. ‘Silent Workings of the Invisible Hand’: Hardy’s Metaphysical Evolution
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4. The Spider’s Web: Metaphysics into Music Drama
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5. The Plucked Harp String: Desire, Courtship Ritual and the Debate Concerning Speech Theory
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6. A Tale of ‘Tragical Possibilities’: Music and the Birth of Consciousness in The Return of the Native

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7. ‘A Tragedy Appropriate for Its Time’: Music and the Story of a ‘Man of Character’
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8. ‘All Creation Groaning’: A Deaf Ear to Music in Jude the Obscure

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9. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Music, Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Metaphysics