The Return of the Native

A Norton Critical Edition

By: Thomas Hardy, Phillip Mallett

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Paperback | 8 January 2010 | Edition Number 2

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This Second Edition reprints the text of the authoritative 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition.

It is accompanied by more than 500 editorial footnotes, many new to this edition, that provide essential historical background and glossing of dialect words. Also new to the Second Edition are the twelve illustrations from the novel's first serial publication and Hardy's "Sketch Map of the Scene of the Story," which accompanied the 1878 edition. Again included is the "Map of Wessex of the Novels and Poems" from the 1912 Macmillan Wessex Edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Backgrounds and Contexts provides a useful "Glossary of Dialect Words" as well as four essays on the textual and publication history of the novel¢"including pieces by Simon Gatrell and Andrew Nash¢"all of which are newly included. Also included are six of Hardy's nonfiction writings on the dialect in the novel, the reading of fiction, and his correspondence, five of which are new to this edition.

Criticism provides a selection of contemporary reviews that suggest The Return of the Native's initial reception as well nine of the most influential modern essays on the novel, by Gillian Beer, D. H. Lawrence, Michael Wheeler, Rosemarie Morgan, Donald Davidson, John Peterson, Richard Swigg, Pamela Dalziel, and Jennifer Gribble.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
A Note on the Text	p. xiii
The Text of The Return of the Native
Facsimile title page of the first edition	p. 3
Sketch map of the Scene of the Story	p. 4
Preface	p. 5
Contents	p. 6
The Return of the Native	p. 8
Backgrounds and Contexts
Map of the Wessex of the Novels and Poems	p. 338
Glossary of Dialect Words	p. 340
Composition	p. 343
The Textual History of The Return of the Native	p. 343
The Return of the Native and Belgravia	p. 363
The Serialization of The Return of the Native	p. 371
Hardy's 1912 Note to Book VI, Chapter III	p. 372
Hardy's Nonfictional Writings	p. 375
From Hardy's Letters	p. 375
From The Life and Works of Thomas Hardy	p. 383
Two Letters on Dialect in the Novel	p. 392
From The Profitable Reading of Fiction	p. 394
From Candour in English Fiction	p. 394
From General Preface to the Novels and Poems	p. 397
Criticism
Contemporary Reception	p. 403
The Athenaeum	p. 406
The Academy	p. 408
The Saturday Review	p. 409
The Spectator	p. 414
Harper's New Monthly Magazine	p. 417
Modern Criticism	p. 418
From Study of Thomas Hardy	p. 418
The Traditional Basis of Thomas Hardy's Fiction	p. 427
The Return of the Native as Antichristian Document	p. 439
Thomas Hardy and the Problem of the "Middle Distance"	p. 454
The Defects of the Real	p. 463
Conflicting Courses in The Return of the Native	p. 474
Anxieties of Representation: The Serial Illustrations to Hardy's The Return of the Native	p. 489
Can the Native Return?	p. 504
The Quiet Women of Egdon Heath	p. 524
Thomas Hardy: A Chronology	p. 543
Selected Bibliography	p. 549
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