SOURCE: Meisel, Perry. “The Mayor of Casterbridge.” In Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed, pp. 90-108. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972.
In the following essay, Meisel assumes a Freudian orientation in his analysis of Michael Henchard's self-alienation.
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