Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: RelocatingiTheDynasts xi
5. 1. Hardy‘s Longest Novel and the Monistic Theory of the Universe 1
6. 2. The Will’s Official Spirit 28
7. 3. Unconscious or Superconscious? 58
8. 4. Poetry and Prose 88
9. 5. A Carnivalesque Picture of Carnival 121
10. 6. Heroism, Speech Zones, and Genres 145
11. 7. The Crowds of War 169
12. 8. Chronotopes and the Death-Birth of a World 194
13. Conclusion: Hardy and Bakhtin 216
14. Notes 223
15. Works Cited 235
16. Index 247