Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy; Ralph Pite
W. W. Norton & Company
9780393937527
0-393-93752-6

- Expanded footnotes by Ralph Pite, further drawing out Hardy's web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in which he embeds this narrative.- A selection of Hardy's poems--four.

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of them new to the Third Edition--that emphasizes the biographical contexts from which parts of Jude the Obscure arose. - Eighteen critical responses, including eleven modern essays--eight of them new to the Third Edition. Simon Gatrell, Michael Hollington, Elaine Showalter, Victor Luftig, and Mary Jacobus are among the new voices.- A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.