The Feminist Sensibility in the Novels of Thomas Hardy

This book focuses on Hardy’s presentation of women characters and his ideology relating to women. Hardy has often been dubbed as anti-feminist for his negative generalizations of women in his novels. The present study is an attempt to exonerate Hardy of this reductionist view and to highlight the aspects, which reveal his sympathy for the woman cause. The necessary evidence from all of Hardy’s fourteen novels has been accumulated and laid before the readers, to offer a clear view of the subject under consideration.