Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy, Richard Nemesvari

• Editorial: Cambridge University Press
• Año: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781108578424
• Categoría: Literatur
• Categoría: Englische Literaturkritik

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.

Índice

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Frontispiece
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Map of Wessex
• General Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chronology
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Desperate Remedies
• Apparatus
• Appendices
• Explanatory Notes