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Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy
Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
September 2019
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    Hardy's first published novel, Desperate Remedies (1871), a piece of sensation fiction that encompasses illegitimacy, murder, blackmail, impersonation, and bigamy, was originally published anonymously. Written while, in Hardy's own words, he was 'feeling his way to a method', it nonetheless contains early examples of the kinds of extreme situations and emotions that continued to play a significant role in his later plots. As part of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides an authoritative text; full scholarly apparatus that allows the reader to trace Hardy's creative process; an introductory essay discussing the work's composition, publication, and critical reception; and comprehensive explanatory notes.

    • The first volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy
    • Desperate Remedies (1871), Hardy's first published novel, is a detective story with Gothic elements
    • Offers an authoritative text and textual apparatus, comprehensive introduction, and explanatory notes

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    September 2019
    Hardback
    9781107036925
    626 pages
    235 × 158 × 38 mm
    1.03kg
    3 b/w illus.
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • List of illustrations
    • General editor's preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • Chronology
    • Abbreviations
    • Introduction
    • Desperate Remedies
    • Editorial emendations
    • List of variants - accidentals
    • End-of-line word division
    • Appendix A. Hardy's prefatory notes
    • Appendix B. Frontispieces
    • Appendix C. Description of principal texts
    • Explanatory notes.
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    • Thomas Hardy
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    • Richard Nemesvari , Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario

      Richard Nemesvari is Professor of English and Dean of Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He edited Thomas Hardy's novel The Trumpet-Major and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. He has written extensively on Victorian fiction, and his monograph Thomas Hardy, Sensationalism, and the Melodramatic Mode was published in 2011. He is a Vice-President of the Thomas Hardy Association, a member of the Advisory Board for the Wilkie Collins Journal, and General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy.

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