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Jude the Obscure

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Broadview Press, Jul 7, 1999 - Fiction - 520 pages
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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I bought this novel in ebook format as part of Hardy's Complete Works in the Delphi Classics series. The production is excellent, the illustrations clear. This is a book that flatly refuses to be ... Read full review

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User Review  - Bird Brian - Goodreads

Hey Jude A sad song? You ain't kiddin'. I don't see how anybody is going to make all this better. The central story of this novel had to do with ill-advised, loveless marriages. Apparently (view ... Read full review

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Contents

Acknowledgements and Editorial Note
6
A Note on the Text
31
JUDE THE OBSCURE
43
Major Textual Changes
437
Comments by Hardy
443
Hardys Outlook
461
Oxford Jowett and Educational
498
Divorce inJude the Obscure
506
Select Bibliography
515
Copyright

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About the author (1999)

Cedric Watts is a professor in the English Department at the University of Sussex, and the internationally-renowned author of fifteen critical and scholarly books, including The Deceptive Text; A Preface to Keats; Joseph Conrad: A Literary Life; Literature and Money; and Thomas Hardy: "Jude the Obscure." As well as being editor of this Broadview edition of Jude the Obscure, he is the editor of Broadview's edition of Conrad's Lord Jim.

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