Jude the Obscure (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
By Thomas Hardy.
Description
The text reprinted in this volume is based on Hardy’s final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition and includes his Preface and Postscript. The novel is fully annotated and is accompanied by Hardy’s map of Wessex and a plan of late Victorian Oxford (the Christminster of the novel). The textual history of Jude the Obscure—including an account of the surviving manuscript showing Hardy’s major change of intention during its composition, of the pressure to bowdlerize the novel, and of the subsequent restoration and revisions—is traced in a series of extracts from Har...
ISBN(s)
039397278X, 9780393972788
