The Mayor of Casterbridge 2e (NCE): A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)

by Thomas Hardy (Author), Phillip Mallett (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2000

  $17.46

  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 Dorsetshire Laboure (1883), in which he frankly comments on the social changes he has witnessed in the county. Hardy's Wessex is further examined in an essay by Michael Millgate, by maps of Casterbridge and Wessex, and by a key to local place names. Christine Winfield discusses the novel's manuscript and its complicated history. Criticism collects seventeen wide-ranging assessments of the novel--six new to the Second Edition--from both contemporary and modern critics, including Virginia Woolf, Albert J. Guerard, Julian Moynahan, John Paterson, Michael Millgate, Irving Howe, J. Hillis Miller, Ian Gregor, Elaine Showalter, George Levine, William Greenslade, H. M. Daleski, and Suzanne Keen. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.23

  This edition is the first critically established text based on a detailed study of the manuscript, and of Hardy's revised printed versions. It includes an informative new introduction by Dale Kramer, and helpful annotations.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.23

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $6.94

  With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the author's most striking episodes and brilliant passages of description.