Roger Ebbatson is Visiting Professor at Lancaster University and Emeritus Professor at University of Worcester, UK. He is the author of numerous books, including Literature and Landscape (2013) and Landscapes of Eternal Return (2016).

Discusses a wide range of Hardy's work, including well-known novels and less familiar poems

Draws on critical theory and philosophy, particularly the Frankfurt school and Lyotard, Deleuze and Derrida

Examines Hardy's texts in the context of critical literature and intellectual movements

1. 'The Bride-Night Fire': Hardy & the Voice of the Folk.- 2. A Pair of Blue Eyes: The Cliff-Scene and the Literary Sublime.- 3. Moments of (Technological) Vision.- 4. 'The Withered Arm' and History.- 5. (Un)Binding the Sheaves: Selfhood and Labour in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.- 6. 'The Open': Hardy and Jefferies.- 7. The d'Urberville Family Portraits: Faciality and Identity.- 8. Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the Fin de Siècle.- 9. Wayfaring.- 10. Hardy's Lyric Voice: 'Beeny Cliff'.- 11. 'The Face at the Casement': Window Patterns in Hardy's Poetry.