Far from the Madding Crowd

ISBN-13: 9780393954081 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 496 str.

Thomas Hardy

Opis

The resulting text includes revisions by Hardy which have never appeared before in a modern edition The novel is fully annotated and is accompanied by Hardy's map of Wessex and a simplified map of the landscape ofFar from the Madding Crowd. "Textual Notes" include a list of emendations, examples of variant readings from the manuscript to the Wessex edition, and a discussion of the choice of copy text The textual history of the novel is traced in extracts from studies by Richard Little Purdy and Simon Gatrell "Backgrounds" includes substantial extracts from Hardy's correspondence with Leslie Stephen and is followed by a selection of contemporary reviews Twentieth-century "Criticism" is represented by Howard Babb, Roy Morrell, Alan Friedman, J. Hillis Miller, Michael Millgate, Penelope Vigar, Peter J. Casagrande, Ian Gregor, and Albert C. Schweik.