Far from the Madding Crowd
Part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy
- Real Author: Thomas Hardy
- Editor: Simon Gatrell, University of Georgia
- Publication planned for: August 2025
- availability: Not yet published - available from August 2025
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108475051
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For the first time since its publication in 1874, this volume presents the text and illustrations of the first edition of Far from the Madding Crowd, a definitive work of nineteenth-century literature and the novel that made Thomas Hardy famous. It includes in footnotes all the revisions that Hardy made to the work, both in manuscript and serial, before 1874 and in numerous subsequent editions. A carefully-researched, accessibly-written introduction examines in detail the successive stages in Hardy's initial inscription and subsequent adjustments to the work from 1873 to the 1920s, and includes analysis of contemporary reviews, as well as a previously unpublished account of the relationship between the novel and George Eliot's Middlemarch. Appendices include discarded manuscript fragments, a discussion of the environments of the novel and consideration of the work of the compositors who first set the novel in type.
Read more- Details, in footnotes, every revision that Hardy made to the novel at twelve stages over more than forty years
- Provides a substantial introduction which explores in detail each stage of the development of the work, including analysis of Hardy's alterations, and of the contemporary critical response
- Includes, in the introduction, a fresh examination of the relationship between Hardy's novel and George Eliot's Middlemarch, proposing a much more substantial connection between the two celebrated texts than was hitherto thought to exist
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- Publication planned for: August 2025
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108475051
- length: 850 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
- availability: Not yet published - available from August 2025
Table of Contents
Introduction
Abbreviations
Notes to the edited text
Far From the Madding Crowd
Apparatus: Variants in punctuation and styling
End-of-line hyphenation in the edited text
Editorial emendations in the edited text
Appendices: A. The preface to the novel 1894–1912
B. The manuscript of the leaves excised from the Yale manuscript
C. The draft chapter detailing sheep-rot
D. Detailed analysis of the leaves of the Yale manuscript
E. The establishment of and revisions to the locations of the action
F. Statistical analysis of the primary compositors of the Cornhill episodes
G. The serial episodes
H. The vignette initials from Cornhill and the frontispieces for the two collected editions
I. Bibliographical details
Explanatory notes.
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