This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think
about history and how did this enter into his writings?' Scholars
have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial'
and 'millennial' criticism, but these are found to be
unsatisfactory. Fred Reid is a historian who seeks answers by
setting Hardy more fully in the discourses of philosophical history
and the domestic and international affairs of Britain. He shows how
Hardy worked out, from the late 1850s, his own 'meliorist'
philosophy of history and how it is inscribed in his fiction.
Rooted in the idea of cyclical history as propounded by the Liberal
Anglican historians, it was adapted after his loss of faith through
reading the works of Auguste Comte, George Drysdale and John Stuart
Mill and used to defend the right of individuals to break with the
Victorian sexual code and make their own 'experiments in living'.
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