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Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and masculinity (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. (2018). Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and masculinity. In P. Mallett (Ed.), The Victorian novel and masculinity (116-150). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491541_6

In July 1907, Thomas Hardy attended a dinner given by the Medico-Psychology Society (later to become the Royal College of Psychiatrists) as the guest of Peter William Macdonald, MD, medical superintendent of Dorset County Asylum and President of the... Read More about Growing up to be a man: Thomas Hardy and masculinity.

Close encounters of the third kind : Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. (2018). Close encounters of the third kind : Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’. In D. Kennedy, & R. Meek (Eds.), Ekphrastic Encounters (165-180). Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526125804.00016

This chapter applies the idea of a non-hierarchical, creative exchange of meaning to Hamo Thornycroft’s 1884 sculpture of The Mower, and its accompanying epigraph from Matthew Arnold’s 1866 elegy for the poet Arthur Hugh Clough: ‘Thyrsis’. The chapte... Read More about Close encounters of the third kind : Hamo Thornycroft’s The Mower and Matthew Arnold’s ‘Thyrsis’.

Changes in the literary canon (2008)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. (2008). Changes in the literary canon. The Victorian literature handbook (163 - 176). Continuum Press

Hardy's "romances and fantasies" A pair of blue eyes, The trumpet major, Two on a tower, and The well-beloved : experiments in metafiction
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. Hardy's "romances and fantasies" A pair of blue eyes, The trumpet major, Two on a tower, and The well-beloved : experiments in metafiction. . The University of Hull