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9780198125952

Adam Bede

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198125952

  • ISBN10:

    019812595X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-05-24
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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The Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) is the first critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual apparatus lists manuscript and first edition variants from the copy-text, which is the corrected eighth edition of 1861 -- her last revision ofthe book. The introduction locates the genesis of the novel in Eliot's family history, her travels, and her reading of literature and biography, and describes the composition process, including her debate with the publisher John Blackwood about the suitability of the subject-matter for a familyaudience, as both author and publisher anticipated its appearing initially in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Using Blackwood's publication ledgers, it also establishes the details of the eleven complete or nearly complete resettings of the novel in Eliot's lifetime; and examines the author'srevisions to a manuscript that is popularly, but erroneously, thought to have been little altered, giving detailed attention to the dialect in the context of more than 900 variants between manuscript and first edition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements v
Illustrations
viii
References and Abbreviations ix
Introduction xi
Genesis xiv
Composition xxv
Publication xlv
Editions liv
Overview liv
The First Edition: Adam Bede in Three Volumes lviii
Adam Bede in Two Volumes lxii
Adam Bede in One Volume lxxi
Illustrated Edition of Adam Bede lxxiv
Adam Bede in One Volume, at 3s. 6d. lxxx
The `New' Edition of 1873, at 2s. 6d. lxxxii
The Cabinet Edition of Adam Bede lxxxiv
The Manuscript lxxxvii
Volume I lxxxix
Volume II xcvi
Volume III cii
Dialect cvi
Choice of Text cxix
The Corrected Eighth Edition cxxi
Treatment of the Copy Text cxxiv
Emendation cxxiv
Treatment of Accidentals cxxx
Recording of Variants cxxxviii
Descriptive List of Editions cxlii
Adam Bede
1(501)
Explanatory Notes 502

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