内容简介
The text of this edition is based on the Wessex Edition of 1912, which was revised and corrected by the author. It has been collated with the Mellstock Edition of 1920, for which Hardy submitted final corrections.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides new and invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset and, in particular, Dorchester, Hardy’s native home and the town upon which Casterbridge is based. Included are six of Hardy’s nonfiction writings, notably excerpts from his essay "The Dorsets
目录
Preface to the Second Edintion
A NOte on the Text
The Text of The Mayor of Casterbridge
Preface
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Backgrounds and Contexts
Composition
Christine Winfield, The Manuscript of Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy’s Non-Fictional Writings
From The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
[Dialect in the Novel]
From The Dorsetshire Labourer
From The Profitable Reading of Fiction
From Candour in English Fiction
From General Preface to the Novels and Poems
Hardy’s Wessex
Map of the Wessex of the Novel and Poems
Map of Casterbridge and Durnover (circa 1848)
Place Names in The Mayor of Casterbridge
A Note on the Corn Laws
Michael Millgate, The Evolution of Wessex
Criticism
Contemporary Reception
From The Athenaeum
[George Saintsbury], From The Saturday Review
[Richard Holt Hutton], From The Spectator
[William Dean Howells], From Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
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