1. Keith Wilson, ‘Introduction’, in Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, ed. Keith Wilson (London, 1997), p. xxviii.
2. Ibid.
3. Norman Page, ‘Introduction’, in Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, ed. Norman Page (Peterborough, Ontario, 1997), p. 23.
4. Ibid., p. 24.
5. Suzanne Keen, Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Cambridge, 1988), p. 129.