Author: Alyssa Diane Leavell
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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This dissertation makes steps toward a complete critical edition of Thomas Hardy's second book of short stories, A Group of Noble Dames. It includes introductory essays describing the publication history of the stories and the general categories of changes that Hardy made for the editions published during his lifetime. A Group of Noble Dames contains ten short stories in total, which are united by a framing narrative. According to Hardy's preface to the Wessex Novels edition of the text published in 1896, the stories were inspired by genealogies and legends of the families of local nobility and landed gentry in the southwest of England, although the stories were dramatized with "motives, passions, and personal qualities" that Hardy imagined (v). This dissertation contains the edited text of five of the short stories, with a textual apparatus containing all substantive and accidental changes. "The First Countess of Wessex," "Squire Petrick's Lady," "The Lady Penelope," "The Duchess of Hamptonshire," and "The Honourable Laura" have been chosen for inclusion in this study because they were all published in separate serial magazines before being collected, and therefore they represent every stage in the publication history. The work presented in this dissertation will contribute toward the first critical edition of A Group of Noble Dames to date. As G. Thomas Tanselle discusses in his book A Rationale of Textual Criticism, a critical edition provides scholars with a reliable and accurate text for future scholarship; additionally "any text that a textual critic produces is itself the product of literary criticism, reflecting a particular aesthetic position and thus a particular approach to what textual 0́correctness' consists of" (35). This dissertation uses the 1891 first edition as copy text, the earliest version to have all ten stories collected together within the framing narrative. Substantive variants from all revised editions are listed in footnotes keyed to the text. A complete list of accidental variants is included as an appendix, along with lists of editorial emendations. This will allow readers the option of reconstructing the version of the text that they deem most suitable for their research purposes.
Studies Toward a Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy's A Group of Noble Dames
Author: Alyssa Diane Leavell
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This dissertation makes steps toward a complete critical edition of Thomas Hardy's second book of short stories, A Group of Noble Dames. It includes introductory essays describing the publication history of the stories and the general categories of changes that Hardy made for the editions published during his lifetime. A Group of Noble Dames contains ten short stories in total, which are united by a framing narrative. According to Hardy's preface to the Wessex Novels edition of the text published in 1896, the stories were inspired by genealogies and legends of the families of local nobility and landed gentry in the southwest of England, although the stories were dramatized with "motives, passions, and personal qualities" that Hardy imagined (v). This dissertation contains the edited text of five of the short stories, with a textual apparatus containing all substantive and accidental changes. "The First Countess of Wessex," "Squire Petrick's Lady," "The Lady Penelope," "The Duchess of Hamptonshire," and "The Honourable Laura" have been chosen for inclusion in this study because they were all published in separate serial magazines before being collected, and therefore they represent every stage in the publication history. The work presented in this dissertation will contribute toward the first critical edition of A Group of Noble Dames to date. As G. Thomas Tanselle discusses in his book A Rationale of Textual Criticism, a critical edition provides scholars with a reliable and accurate text for future scholarship; additionally "any text that a textual critic produces is itself the product of literary criticism, reflecting a particular aesthetic position and thus a particular approach to what textual 0́correctness' consists of" (35). This dissertation uses the 1891 first edition as copy text, the earliest version to have all ten stories collected together within the framing narrative. Substantive variants from all revised editions are listed in footnotes keyed to the text. A complete list of accidental variants is included as an appendix, along with lists of editorial emendations. This will allow readers the option of reconstructing the version of the text that they deem most suitable for their research purposes.
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This dissertation makes steps toward a complete critical edition of Thomas Hardy's second book of short stories, A Group of Noble Dames. It includes introductory essays describing the publication history of the stories and the general categories of changes that Hardy made for the editions published during his lifetime. A Group of Noble Dames contains ten short stories in total, which are united by a framing narrative. According to Hardy's preface to the Wessex Novels edition of the text published in 1896, the stories were inspired by genealogies and legends of the families of local nobility and landed gentry in the southwest of England, although the stories were dramatized with "motives, passions, and personal qualities" that Hardy imagined (v). This dissertation contains the edited text of five of the short stories, with a textual apparatus containing all substantive and accidental changes. "The First Countess of Wessex," "Squire Petrick's Lady," "The Lady Penelope," "The Duchess of Hamptonshire," and "The Honourable Laura" have been chosen for inclusion in this study because they were all published in separate serial magazines before being collected, and therefore they represent every stage in the publication history. The work presented in this dissertation will contribute toward the first critical edition of A Group of Noble Dames to date. As G. Thomas Tanselle discusses in his book A Rationale of Textual Criticism, a critical edition provides scholars with a reliable and accurate text for future scholarship; additionally "any text that a textual critic produces is itself the product of literary criticism, reflecting a particular aesthetic position and thus a particular approach to what textual 0́correctness' consists of" (35). This dissertation uses the 1891 first edition as copy text, the earliest version to have all ten stories collected together within the framing narrative. Substantive variants from all revised editions are listed in footnotes keyed to the text. A complete list of accidental variants is included as an appendix, along with lists of editorial emendations. This will allow readers the option of reconstructing the version of the text that they deem most suitable for their research purposes.
Studies Toward a Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales
A Critical Analysis of A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Author: Martin Ray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351879375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This is the definitive textual analysis of all of Hardy's collected short stories, tracing the development of each from manuscript, through newspaper serial versions, galley proofs and revises to collected editions in volume form. It is no surprise to discover that Hardy's capacity for inveterate revision is manifested in his tales as it was in his novels. Even those stories for which he professed little regard were meticulously and continuously revised, in some cases more than thirty years after their first publication. The alterations extend to the most minute details of plot, landscape, characterisation and style, as well as the restoration of bowdlerised passages which had been demanded by serial magazines. This study will play a major role in elevating the importance of this genre in Hardy's prolific output and will illuminate his textual practices - an area of considerable and growing interest to a large number of scholars and students.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351879375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This is the definitive textual analysis of all of Hardy's collected short stories, tracing the development of each from manuscript, through newspaper serial versions, galley proofs and revises to collected editions in volume form. It is no surprise to discover that Hardy's capacity for inveterate revision is manifested in his tales as it was in his novels. Even those stories for which he professed little regard were meticulously and continuously revised, in some cases more than thirty years after their first publication. The alterations extend to the most minute details of plot, landscape, characterisation and style, as well as the restoration of bowdlerised passages which had been demanded by serial magazines. This study will play a major role in elevating the importance of this genre in Hardy's prolific output and will illuminate his textual practices - an area of considerable and growing interest to a large number of scholars and students.
Thomas Hardy's Shorter Fiction
Author: Sophie Gilmartin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748632557
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748632557
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.
Studies Toward a Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy's Novel Desperate Remedies
Studies Towards a Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy's Novel A Laodicean
Author: Jane Gooding Gatewood
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Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Studies Toward a Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy's Novel "Desperate Remedies"
Studies Towards a Critical Edition of Thomas Hardy's Novel The Hand of Ethelberta
Author: Sarah Teresa Bearinger Dangelantonio
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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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