Desperate Remedies (The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy)
Cambridge University Press, 8/15/2019
EAN 9781107036925, ISBN10: 1107036925
Hardcover, 626 pages, 23.8 x 16.5 x 3.8 cm
Language: English
Hardy's first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy's own words, he was 'feeling his way to a method', it nonetheless contains early examples of the kinds of extreme situations and emotions that continued to play a significant role in his later plots. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative text; full scholarly apparatus that allows the reader to trace Hardy's creative process; an introductory essay discussing the work's composition, publication, and critical reception; and comprehensive explanatory notes.
List of illustrations
General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
Desperate Remedies
Editorial emendations
List of variants - accidentals
End-of-line word division
Appendix A. Hardy's prefatory notes
Appendix B. Frontispieces
Appendix C. Description of principal texts
Explanatory notes.