There’s oodles of stuff out there on Far From the Madding Crowd. Delve into Google Scholar if you want a post-colonial psychoanalytic deconstruction of Wessex. To wrestle the novel back from academia, here’s a few articles / videos focusing on the new adaptation and reflecting on the original work:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video...
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015...
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014...
http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/cultur...
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015...