Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgement
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Significance of the Local：Form, Cosmopolitanism and Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Novels
Chapter One
Narrating the War：Conflicting Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in The Trumpet-Major
Chapter Two
The Idea of Hybridity：Debatable Ethnic Hierarchy and Cosmopolitan Reality in Far from the Madding Crowd and The Mayor of
Casterbridge
Chapter Three
Desiring Body： Jude the Obscure and Emerging Cosmopolitanism
Chapter Four
“Nothing is Permanent but Change”：Travel，Wessex Tourism, and The Woodlanders
Conclusion
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