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Index
About the Editor
Title Page
Contents
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
The Text of Jude the Obscure
A map of the Wessex of the novels (1895)
Contents of Jude the Obscure
Preface to the First Edition (1895)
Postscript (1912)
Jude the Obscure
Backgrounds and Contexts
Composition, Publication, and Text
John Paterson • [Hardy’s Change of Direction]
Robert C. Slack • [Hardy’s Revisions]
Hardy’s Nonfictional Writings
From Hardy’s Autobiography
Comments from Hardy’s Letters
The Tree of Knowledge
From Candour in English Fiction
Hardy’s Poems
To a Lady
Thoughts of Phena
At an Inn
In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury
In Tenebris II
A Thunderstorm in Town
The Recalcitrants
Midnight on the Great Western
The Young Glass-Stainer
The Son’s Portrait
Childhood among the Ferns
Locale
Norman Page • Settings and Sources
Map: Valters’ Plan of Oxford (1891)
Criticism
Contemporary Reception
William Dean Howells • From Harper’s Weekly (December 7, 1895)
Margaret Oliphant • From Blackwood’s Magazine (January 1896)
Edmund Gosse • From Cosmopolis (January 1896)
D. F. Hannigan • From Westminster Review (January 1896)
W. W. How, Bishop of Wakefield • Letter to the Yorkshire Post (June 9, 1896)
Havelock Ellis • From Savoy Magazine (October 1896)
D. H. Lawrence • [Male and Female] (1914)
Modern Criticism
Mary Jacobus • From ‘Sue the Obscure’ (1975)
Penny Boumelha • [A “Double Tragedy”] (1982)
J. B. Bullen • [Contemporary Realist Painting in Jude the Obscure] (1986)
F. B. Pinion • [Jude the Obscure as Autobiography] (1986)
Elaine Showalter • [A “Biological Trap”] (1986)
John Goode • [Place, the Social Order, and Phillotson] (1988)
Marjorie Garson • [Jude’s Idealism] (1991)
Victor Luftig • [Jude and Sue: “True Comrades”] (1993)
John R. Doheny • [In Defence of Arabella] (1998)
Michael Hollington • [“Progress” and Disruption: Little Father Time] (2004)
Simon Gatrell • From Coloured Clothes (2011)
Thomas Hardy: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Copyright
Norton Critical Editions: Victorian Era
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