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  • 1 Oct 2020
    Simon Gatrell

    Editing Thomas Hardy’s ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’

    The first thing to say for any reader who is not familiar with scholarly editions like this of Hardy’s fiction, is that it is different from all others and really significant. It gives, if you combine the text with the footnotes on the same page, the whole history of Hardy’s imaginative involvement with each work, […]

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  • 1 Oct 2020
    Alan Manford

    Editing Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Woodlanders’

    My love affair with The Woodlanders began many years ago when I covered much of the groundwork for a scholarly edition while doing my MA —entitled “Materials for an edition of Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders”. Much of the enjoyment for me as a textual editor is to see the development of a work and in […]

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  • 1 Oct 2020
    Tim Dolin

    Editing Hardy’s ‘The Return of the Native’

    My daughter is taking an undergraduate course in Shakespearean theatre this semester, and one of her foundation readings is Elinor Fuchs’s influential short essay, ‘E.F.’s Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask a Play’. Having spent long periods over several years on a small planet of my own, Thomas Hardy’s Egdon Heath, this […]

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  • 1 Oct 2020
    Richard Nemesvari

    Editing Thomas Hardy’s ‘Desperate Remedies’

    In some ways producing a scholarly edition of Desperate Remedies is easier than editing other Hardy novels, first of all because there is no extant manuscript. The story is that after he completed the text Hardy was moving lodgings, and when he discovered that the MS wouldn’t fit in his portmanteau, he destroyed it rather […]

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  • 10 Sep 2019
    Richard Nemesvari

    Thomas Hardy and the Creative Process

    Thomas Hardy fully understood, from early on in his career, that the production of a novel, or short story, took place both in the realm of artistic creation and in the literary marketplace.  He eventually became very proficient at manipulating the requirements of Victorian publishing’s modes of production for his own purposes.  In particular the […]

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  • 27 Aug 2019
    Eve C. Sorum

    Modernist Empathy Now?

    Barack Obama was the empathy president. I don’t say this simply because of some of his more famous uses of the term—for example, when he described his criteria for Supreme Court nominees in May 2009 as including “that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for […]

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