1. 'She matched his violence with her own wild passion': illustrating Far from the madding crowd / Pamela Dalziel.
2. Less than faithfully presented: fiction in modern commentaries on Hardy's Tess of the d"Urbervilles / Robert Schweik.
3. Characterization in Hardy's Jude the obscure: the functions of Arabella / John R. Doheny.
4. Hardy promises: The Dynasts and the epic of imperialism / Charles Lock.
5. From fascination to listlessness: Hardy's depiction of love / Michael Irwin.
6. 'The worthy encompassed by the inevitable': Hardy and a new perception of tragedy / Raymond Chapman.
7. Hardy and time / Phillip Mallett.
8. How to be an old poet: the examples of Hardy and Yeats / Samuel Hynes.
9. Variations on two enigmas: Hardy, Elgar and the Muses / Joanna Cullen Brown.
10. Thomas Hardy, epistolarian / Ralph W. V. Elliott.
11. Distracted preacher: Thomas Hardy's public utterances / Michael Millgate.
12. The wit and wisdom of Thomas Hardy / Harold Orel.
