| Description |
clviii, 526 pages : facsimiles ; 23 cm |
| Series |
The Clarendon edition of the novels of George Eliot |
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
Novels. 1980.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Descriptive List of Editions -- Adam Bede -- Commentary |
| Summary |
"The Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) is the first critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual apparatus lists manuscripts and first edition variants from the copy-text, which is the corrected eighth edition of 1861 - her last revision of the book. The introduction locates the genesis of the novel in Eliot's family history, her travels, and her reading of literature and biography, and describes the composition process, including her debate with the publisher John Blackwood about the suitability of the subject-matter for a family audience, as both author and publisher anticipated its appearing initially in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Using Blackwood's publication ledgers, it establishes the details of the eleven complete or nearly complete resettings of the novel in Eliot's lifetime, and examines the author's revisions to a manuscript that is popularly, but erroneously, thought to have been little altered |
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This edition also gives detailed attention to the dialect in the context of more than 900 variants between manuscript and first edition."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Adam Bede.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
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Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
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Country life -- England -- Midlands -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Women clergy -- Fiction.
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Infanticide -- Fiction.
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Carpenters -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Midlands (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085043 -- Social life and customs -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008859 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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England http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82068148 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
Didactic fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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| Author |
Martin, Carol A., 1941-2017.
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| LC no. |
00049114 |
| ISBN |
019812595X alkaline paper |
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