Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hardy's hand-drawn map of Wessex and the manuscript title page for the first edition of his novel are also included.
Hardy and the Novel includes seven poems by Hardy that provide greater insight into his ethos; selections from Michael Millgate's biography of Hardy that depict the relationship between episodes in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and events in the author's life; and excerpts from Grindle and Gatrell's introduction to the 1983 edition that discuss Hardy's revision process in both manuscripts and early printed editions of the novel.
Criticism features three contemporary reviews of the novel not printed in the earlier Norton editions, including the first feminist review of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Also new are "A Chat with Mr. Hardy," a hitherto unprinted post-publication interview with the author about his new novel, and five carefully selected critical interpretations.
Essays by Elliot B. Gose, Jr., Peter R. Morton, and Gillian Beer address Hardy's debt to Charles Darwin, perhaps the single most important influence on Hardy's thought and imagination; Raymond Williams's essay presents a Marxist perspective; and Adrian Poole discusses the significance of Hardy's wisdom concerning "the trouble men's words have with women and the trouble women have with men's words."
A Chronology, new to this edition, and a Selected Bibliography are included.
Elledge, Scott: - Scott Elledge was Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emeritus at Cornell University. He was the author of E. B. White: A Biography and Wider than the Sky: Poems Selected for Young Readers. He was the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Paradise Lost, Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays, and Milton's "Lycidas": An Approach to Criticism.
ISBN/UPC:
9780393959031
Product:
Book, Paperback
Title:
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Series:
Edition:
3
Contributors
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Editor: Scott Elledge
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company, 1990
Pages:
512
Languages:
English
Categories
Specification:
8.5 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches, 1.1 pounds
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