Research Catalog

Title

Far from the madding crowd : an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism / Thomas Hardy ; edited by Robert C. Schweik.

Author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Publication

New York : Norton, ©1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schweik, Robert C.

Description

xii, 472 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

Bathsheba Everdene is courted by three young men: an adventurer, a young farmer who becomes bailiff of the farm she inherits, and a neighboring farmer.

Series Statement

A Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Norton critical edition.

Subjects

• Farm life
• Women farmers
• Romance fiction
• England > Wessex
• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Far from the madding crowd
• Didactic fiction
• Pastoral fiction
• Farm life > Fiction
• Women farmers > Fiction
• Far from the madding crowd (Hardy, Thomas)
• Fiction
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction
• Wessex (England) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Didactic fiction.
• Fiction.
• Romance fiction.
• Pastoral fiction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-472).

Contents

The text from Far from the madding crowd -- Contents -- Preface -- Far from the madding crowd -- Textual appendix -- Textual notes -- Choosing a copy-text: the problem of Hardy's manuscript accidentals / Robert C. Schweik and Michael Piret -- The setting: Hardy's map of Wessex -- Simplified map of the country of Far from the madding crowd -- Biographical and social backgrounds: From The life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928 / F.E. Hardy -- Puddletown into Weatherbury: the genesis of Wessex / Michael Millgate -- Hardy's correspondence with Leslie Stephen: From Leslie Stephen, 30 November 1872 -- From Leslie Stephen, 8 January 1874 -- From Leslie Stephen, 17 February 1874 -- To Leslie Stephen, 18 February 1874? -- To Smith, Elder & Co, 18 Feburary 1874 -- From Leslie Stephen, 12 March 1874 -- From Leslie Stephen, 13 April 1874 -- From Leslie Stephen 25 August 1874 -- Composition, publication, revision: The manuscript and notes on composition and publication / Richard Little Purdy -- The significance of Hardy's revision / Simon Gatrell -- Contemporary critical reception: Spectator, January 3 1874 / R.H. Hutton -- The Athenaeum, December 5, 1874 -- Nation, December 24, 1874 / Henry James -- Academy, January 2, 1875 / Andrew Lang -- Westminster Review, January 1875 / J.R. Wise -- Modern criticism: Setting and theme in Far from madding crowd / Howard Babb -- Romance versus realism / Roy Morrell -- Innocence, expansion, and containment / Alan Friedman -- Point of view / J. Hillis Miller -- Hardy's achievement / Michael Millgate -- A distinct development in artistic vision / Penelope Vigar -- Hardy's shifting narrative modes / Robert C. Schweik -- A new view of Bathsheba Everdene / Peter J. Casagrande -- Hardy's use of dramatic pace.

Call Number

JFD 87-5865

ISBN

• 0393954080
• 9780393954081

LCCN

85021784

OCLC

12695052

Author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Title

Far from the madding crowd : an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism / Thomas Hardy ; edited by Robert C. Schweik.

Imprint

New York : Norton, ©1986.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A Norton critical edition

Norton critical edition.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-472).

Added Author

Schweik, Robert C., editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 87-5865