The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)  Tags: hardy mayor casterbridge  

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about The Mayor of Casterbridge. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• British Writers [vol 4]
• Contemporary Authors [vol 123]
• The Critical Temper: A Survey of Modern Criticism on English and American Literature from the Beginnings to the Twentieth Century [vols 3, 4]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 3]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 2]
• Cyclopedia of World Authors [vol 2]
  
• Masterplots [vol 7]
  
• Modern British Literature [vols 2, 4, 5]
• Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals;
  • [vol 32] - locate the topical essay "The Victorian Novel"
  • [vol 140] - locate the topical essay "Ecocriticism and Nineteenth-Century Literature"
• Novels for Students [vol 15]
• Oxford Reader’s Companion to Hardy
• Thomas Hardy: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings about Him
• A Thomas Hardy Dictionary
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  
  • [vols 4, 10, 18, 32, 48, 72, 143, 153] - check under Mayor of Casterbridge in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work

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