Far from the Madding Crowd

ThisNortonCriticalEditionisbasedonthe1912WessexEdition,emendedtocorrecterrorsthathavecreptintothetextfromthemanu-*onwardsandtoincorporaterevisionsthatHardymadeinhis"studycopy"ofthenovelandinhismarkedprinter'scopyandpageproofsforaHarperandBrothers"sixpennyedition"of190I,whenevertheserevisionscanconfidentlybejudgedtorepresentHardy'sfinalde-liberateintention.TheresultingtextincludesrevisionsbyHardythathaveneverbeforeappearedinamodernedition.Thenovelisfullyan-notatedandisaccompaniedbyHardy'smapofWessexandasimplifiedmapofthelandscapeofFarfromtheMaddbNCrou,d.Textualnotesin-cludealistofemendations,examplesofvariantreadingsfromtheman-u*totheWessexEdition,andadiscussionofthechoiceofcopytext.ThetextualhistoryofthenovelistracedinextractsfromstudiesbyRichardLittlePurdyandSimonGatrelI.Backgroundandsourcematerialsincludeextractsfromcorrespon-denceandcontemporaryreviews.Twentieth-centurycriticismisrepre-sentedbyHowardBabb,RoyMorrell,AlanFriedman,J.HillisMiller,MichaelMillgate,PenelopeVigar,PeterCasagrande,andIanGregor.作者简介：THEEDITOR:ROBERTC.SCIIWEIKisDistinguishedTeachingProfessorofEng-lishattheStateUniversityofNewYork,CollegeatFredonia,andavicepresi-dentoftheThomasHardySociety(UK)andtheinternationalHardyAssocia-tion.HehasbeenaVisitingProfessorattheUniversityofWisconsin,theUniversityofTrier,Germany,andStockhohnUniversity,Sweden,andaFcllowoftheNationalEndowmentfortheHumanitiesandtheFulbright-IIaysPro-gram.Heisco-authorofReferenceSourcesinEnglishandAmericanLite~tureandHartCrane:ADe*iveBibliogphy;contributortotheCambridgeCompaniontoThomasHard)';editorofWatheringHeights;andauthorofarticlesonItardy,RobertBrowning,J.S.Mill,andaspectsofculturalhistory