Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) wanted his last novel ‘to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity, and to point, without a mincing of words, the tragedy of unfulfilled aims’. First published in its present form in 1895 (although post-dated 1896) after appearing as an abridged serial, the work was met with as much opprobrium as admiration. Critics wrote reviews entitled ‘Jude the Obscene’ and ‘Hardy the Degenerate’ because of the novel’s explicit content and deliberate attacks on the education system and marriage laws; even Hardy’s wife took personal offence. Sparse and bleak, the story follows Jude Fawley, a promising self-taught scholar and village stonemason, as he navigates with increasing difficulty between the prejudices of the class system and two very different women: his wife, Arabella, and his ethereal, disturbed love, Sue Bridehead.

Editorial Reviews

For the past decade, Penguin has been producing handsome hardcover versions of their classics (…) both elegant and quirky in shocks of bright color“
-The New York Times

– From the Publisher

I am delighted with the new Jude the Obscure.“

– Richard Kaye

The only text for the serious scholar. The Critical Editions are not only great from a student’s point-of-view but from a teaching perspective as well.
– Todd Matthew

The criticism is well chosen to give students an introduction to major elements in Hardy’s last novel. I also appreciate the chronology of Hardy’s life and the material on his revision process. Norton Critical Editions . . . offer me a chance to expand the world of my students.
– David B. Merrell

„Broadview Press and editor Cedric Watts have done a splendid job.“
– English Literature in Transition

„This is an informative and scholarly edition of the novel which brings out its explosive nature, why it so scandalised Hardy’s contemporaries. Professor Watts provides a clear, lively introduction, helpful notes and a wealth of material on the textual history of Jude the Obscure, its contemporary reception and its intellectual and social context. Readers of Hardy will find it immensely useful.“
– T.R. Wright University of Newcastle

„Cedric Watts’s edition of Jude the Obscure is one of an extremely interesting set of literary works from Broadview Press, distinguished by wise editorial choices and inclusion of a variety of documents contemporary with the works. Watts is one of our era’s most resourceful and level-headed analysts of literature, and his introduction richly sketches the angles of several controversies current in Hardy’s time. There are numerous selections from writings which influenced Hardy (science, philosophy, poems, the Bible) excerpts from essays and poems from the late nineteenth century, and materials in categories such as divorce, and university education, all of which amplify and add to Watts’ comments, and stimulate thinking about Hardy and nineteenth-century subjects, as well as about our own time.“
– Dale Kramer University of Oregon

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