Jude the Obscure

by Hardy, Thomas; Watts, Cedric

• ISBN13: 9781551111711
• ISBN10: 1551111713
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though we have come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuing century, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power to shock us and disturb our dreams.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements and Editorial Note	6	(7)
Introduction	7	(24)
A Note on the Text	31	(2)
A Brief Chronology	33	(4)
Thomas Hardy
Hardy's Preface (1895), Revised Preface and Postscript (1912)	37	(6)
JUDE THE OBSCURE	43	(394)
At Marygreen, I-XI	45	(66)
At Christminster, I-VII	111	(51)
At Melchester, I-X	162	(69)
At Shaston, I-VI	231	(56)
At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere, I-VIII	287	(64)
At Christminster again, I-XI	351	(86)
Appendix A:Major Textual Changes	437	(6)
Appendix B: Comments by Hardy	443	(3)
Appendix C: Contemporaneous Reviews and a Parody	446	(15)
Appendix D: Hardy's Outlook	461	(5)
Appendix E: Influences and Contexts: Cultural Extracts	466	(32)
Appendix F: Oxford, Jowett, and Educational Opportunity	498	(8)
Appendix G: Divorce in Jude the Obscure	506	(4)
Appendix H: Map of Wessex Appended to the 1895 Edition of Jude the Obscure	510	(5)
Select Bibliography	515