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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... allusions which previously have not been identified . The appendices set the novel in a wide critical and cultural context . Introduction In the sequence of Thomas Hardy's novels , Jude Acknowledgements and Editorial Note.
... novel . Hardy denied that Jude the Obscure was autobio- graphical ; but , in all its tensions and conflicts , which it both describes and enacts , it is more intimately ( if obliquely ) autobiographical than the entirety of the lengthy ...
... novels by Lord Lytton , poems by W.J. Mickle , and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress . Walking home from school one day ... novel which declares , in tones which might be those of the disillusioned Jude , " Human life is everywhere a state ...
... novel - writing . The late nine- teenth century was a golden age for authors , as the education system was producing a large popular readership , technological advances were reducing the production - costs of books and magazines , and ...
... novel's sexual contents ) was then , as it is now , commonly a guaran- tor of large sales . Hardy had given the provocative sub - title “ A Pure Woman " to this novel of the rape , suffering and lethal revenge of his heroine . R.G. Cox ...
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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 |