Contents
- The Text of Far from the Madding Crowd
- Contents
- Preface
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- TEXTUAL APPENDIX
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- Textual Notes
- Robert C. Schweik and Michael Piret [Choosing a Copy-text: The Problem of Hardy’s Manuscript Accidentals]
- Backgrounds
- THE SETTING
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- Hardy’s Map of Wessex
- Simplified Map of the Country of Far from the Madding Crowd
- BIOGRAPHICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUNDS
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- F. E. Hardy, From The Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840–1928
- Michael Millgate, Puddleton into Weatherbury: The Genesis of Wessex
- HARDY’S CORRESPONDENCE WITH LESLIE STEPHEN
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- 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 February 1874
- From Leslie Stephen, 12 March 1874
- From Leslie Stephen, 13 April 1874
- From Leslie Stephen, 25 August 1874
- COMPOSITION, PUBLICATIONS, REVISION
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- Richard Little Purdy, [The Manuscript and Notes on Composition and Publication]
- Simon Gatrell, [The Significance of Hardy’s Revisions]
- Criticism
- CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL RECEPTION
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- [R. H. Hutton], From The Spectator, January 3, 1874
- From The Athenaeum, December 5, 1874
- Henry James, From the Nation, December 24, 1874
- Andrew Lang, From the Academy, January 2, 1875
- [J. R. Wise], From the Westminster Review, January 1875
- MODERN CRITICISM
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- Howard Babb, Setting and Theme in Far from the Madding Crowd
- Roy Morrell, [Romance versus Realism]
- Alan Friedman, [Innocence, Expansion, and Containment]
- J. Hillis Miller, [Point of View]
- Michael Millgate, [Hardy’s Achievement]
- Penelope Vigar, [A Distinct Development in Artistic Vision]
- Robert C. Schweik, [Hardy’s Shifting Narrative Modes]
- Peter J. Casagrande, A New View of Bathsheba Everdene
- Ian Gregor, [Hardy’s Use of Dramatic Pace]
- Selected Bibliography
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