The Return of the Native
Edited by Simon Gatrell, Nancy Barrineau, and Margaret R. Higonnet
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Description New introduction by critic Margaret R. Higonnet is the most critically up-to-date discussion of the novelThe only critical text of the novel based on the manuscript and first edition and excluding the later changes that substantially altered Hardy's original intentionsFull and helpful explanatory and textual notesNew and up-to-date bibliography and chronologyHardy's sketch-map of the scene of the storyNew to this editionNew introduction by critic Margaret R. Higonnet is the most critically up-to-date discussion of the novel and considers the mythic nature of the heath opposed to th...
Description
New introduction by critic Margaret R. Higonnet is the most critically up-to-date discussion of the novel
The only critical text of the novel based on the manuscript and first edition and excluding the later changes that substantially altered Hardy's original intentions
Full and helpful explanatory and textual notes
New and up-to-date bibliography and chronology
Hardy's sketch-map of the scene of the story
New to this edition
New introduction by critic Margaret R. Higonnet is the most critically up-to-date discussion of the novel and considers the mythic nature of the heath opposed to the modernity of the characters, the economic vocabulary of value and investment, the novel's classical structure and Hardy's cinematic techniques.
New and up-to-date bibliography
New chronology
'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire'
Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.
Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.
This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition, and without the later changes that substantially altered Hardy's original intentions.
New introduction by critic Margaret R. Higonnet is the most critically up-to-date discussion of the novel
The only critical text of the novel based on the manuscript and first edition and excluding the later changes that substantially altered Hardy's original intentions
Full and helpful explanatory and textual notes
New and up-to-date bibliography and chronology
Hardy's sketch-map of the scene of the story
New to this edition
New introduction by critic Margaret R. Higonnet is the most critically up-to-date discussion of the novel and considers the mythic nature of the heath opposed to the modernity of the characters, the economic vocabulary of value and investment, the novel's classical structure and Hardy's cinematic techniques.
New and up-to-date bibliography
New chronology
'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire'
Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.
Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams.
This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition, and without the later changes that substantially altered Hardy's original intentions.