A woman's story : Tess and the problem of voice / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Becoming a man in Jude the obsure (sic) / Elizabeth Langland -- Narrative, gender, and power in Far from the madding crowd / Linda M. Shires -- Pay as you go : exchanges of bodies and signs / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Textual hysteria : Hardy's narrator on women / Kristin Brady -- Hardy ruins : female spaces and male designs / U. C. Knoepflmacher -- Girl-watching, child-beating, and other exercises for readers of Jude the obscure / James R. Kincaid -- Looking at Tess : the female figure in two narrative media / Dianne Fallon Sadoff -- Hardy's female reader / Judith Mitchell -- The menace of solitude : the politics and aesthetics of exclusion in The woodlanders / Robert Kiely -- Club laws : chess and the construction of gender in A pair of blue eyes / Mary Rimmer -- Moral authority in the late novels : the gendering of art / John Kucich -- "A complicated position for a woman" : The hand of Ethelberta / Penny Boumelha.