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The Return of the Native
New Edition
Thomas Hardy
Edited by Simon Gatrell, Nancy Barrineau, and Margaret R. Higonnet
496 pages
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one map
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196x129mm
978-0-19-953704-4
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Paperback
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14 August 2008
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- New introduction by critic Margaret R. Higonnet is the most critically up-to-date discussion of the novel
- The only critical text of the novel based on the manuscript and first edition.
- Full and helpful explanatory and textual notes
- New and up-to-date bibliography and chronology
- Hardy's sketch-map of the scene of the story
New to this edition - New introduction by critic Margaret R. Higonnet is the most critically up-to-date discussion of the novel and considers the mythic nature of the heath opposed to the modernity of the characters, the economic vocabulary of value and investment, the novel's classical structure and Hardy's cinematic techniques.
- New and up-to-date bibliography
- New chronology
'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire'
Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.
Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to
shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.
This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Readers and students of Hardy, nineteenth-century novel,
women's studies, cultural studies, regional literature
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Thomas Hardy Edited by Simon Gatrell, Professor of English, University of Georgia, Nancy Barrineau, Associate Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and Margaret R. Higonnet, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut
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