Jude the ObscureBroadview Press, 1999 M07 7 - 517 páginas When Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude’s sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the “New Woman,” and its attacks on “holy wedlock” and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book “Jude the Obscene.” Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel marked the culmination of Hardy’s development as a leading novelist of the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. The Broadview edition restores the original, controversial 1895 text. |
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... appeared in 1871 . This was a luridly melodramatic suspense - narrative incorporating an explicit lesbian encounter , the concealed killing by a husband of his alcoholic wife , a mistress later masquerading as that wife , and the last ...
... appeared in 1895 , it proved to be as controversial as Tess , and one of the reviewers claimed that Hardy belonged to the " Anti - Marriage League ” . The novel was attacked for its sexual frankness , " sordid " realism and impious ...
... appeared in plays by Shaw ( particularly Mrs Warren's Profession , 1894 ) , and in numerous novels and tales , notably The Heavenly Twins ( 1893 ) by " Sarah Grand " ( Frances McFall ) , Keynotes ( 1893 ) by " George Egerton " ( Mary ...
... appeared in 1895. George Bernard Shaw claimed that dis- cussion of the New Woman was at its height in 1893 , and in 1896 the Saturday Review declared that the topic had expired a year previously.3 The ambivalence of Sue's revolt a ...
... appeared as a long circular perspective ending in a shining disk of quivering water at a distance of a hundred feet . There was a lining of green moss near the top , and nearer still the hart's- tongue fern . He said to himself , in the ...
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Major Textual Changes | 437 |
Comments by Hardy | 443 |
Contemporaneous Reviews and a Parody | 446 |
Hardys Outlook | 461 |
Influences and Contexts Cultural Extracts | 466 |
Oxford Jowett and Educational Opportunity | 498 |
Divorce in Jude the Obscure | 506 |
Map of Wessex Appended to the 1895 Edition of Jude the Obscure | 510 |
Select Bibliography | 515 |