This Third Edition of Tess of the d'Urbert,illes intro-duces a new text--that of the Clarendon edition(1983), edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell.The text is fully annotated and includes, for ease of refer- ence, a separate table of contents for the novel. Also new to the Third Edition are reproductions of Hardy's map of Wessex and the manuscript title page for the First Edition. "Hardy and the Novel" includes seven poems by Hardy that provide greater insight into his ethos, passages from Michael Millgate's biogra-phy of Hardy that depict the relationship between parts of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the author's own life, and excerpts from Grindle and Gatrelt'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 new contemporary reviews including the first feminist review of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Also new to the Third Edition is "A Chat with Mr. Hardy," a hitherto un-reprinted post-publication interview with the author about his new novel. Five new critical interpretations have been carefully selected, including essays by Elliot B. Gose Jr., Peter R. Morton, and Gillian Beer that address Hardy's thought and imagination. Raymond Williams's essay presents a Marxist perspective, and Adrian Poole discusses the significance of Hardy's wise words concerning "the trouble men's words have with women and the trouble women have with men's words." A Chronology and, new to this edition, a Selected Bibliography are also included. 作者简介:SCOTT ELLEDGE was Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emeritus at Comell University .He is the editor of Milton's "Lycidas":An Approach to Criticism; Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays; the Norton Critical Edition of Paradise Lost; and Wider Than the Sky:Poems to Grow Up With.He is the author of E.B.White:A Biography.
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