1. See, for instance, Peter Widdowson, ‘Hardy and Critical Theory’, in Dale Kiamer, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 73–92
2. Norman Page, ed., Oxford Reader’s Companion to Hardy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 75–89
3. Geoffrey Harvey, The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2010)
4. Phillip Mallett, ed., Thomas Hardy in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
5. Narratology may be defined as a discipline which incorporates both theory and method, and deals with narrative representation of all kinds. Monika Fludemik, An Introduction to Narratology, trans. Patricia Häusler-Greenfield and Monika Fludemik (London and New York: Routledge, 2010), p. 9