It also incorporates revisions that Hardy made inhis study copy of the novel and in his marked printer's copy and pageproofs for the Harper and Brothers sixpenny edition of 1901, wheneverthese revisions could be confidently judged to represent Hardy's finaldeliberate intent. The resulting text includes revisions by Hardy which have neverappeared before in a modern edition. The novel is fully annotated and is accompanied by Hardy's map ofWessex and a simplified map of the landscape of Far from the MaddingCrowd. Textual Notes include a list of emendations, examples of variantreadings from the manuscript to the Wessex edition, and a discussion ofthe choice of copy text. The textual history of the novel is traced in extracts from studies byRichard Little Purdy and Simon Gatrell. Backgrounds includes substantial extracts from Hardy's correspondencewith Leslie Stephen and is followed by a selection of contemporaryreviews. Twentieth-century Criticism is represented by Howard Babb, RoyMorrell, Alan Friedman, J. Hillis Miller, Michael Millgate, PenelopeVigar, Peter J. Casagrande, Ian Gregor, and Albert C. Schweik.
Thomas Hardy—Far From The Madding Crowd - An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, C
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