Desperate remedies / Thomas Hardy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Contributor:

Ingham, Patricia.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

xlvi, 415 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Hardy's first published work, Desperate Remedies moves the sensation novel into new territory. The anti-hero, Aeneas Manston, as physically alluring as he is evil, even fascinates the innocent Cytherea, though she is in love with another man. When he cannot seduce her, Manston resorts to deception, blackmail, bigamy, murder, and rape. Yet this compelling story also raises the great questions underlying Hardy's major novels, which relate to the injustice of the class system, the treatment of women, probability and causality. This edition shows for the first time that the sensation novel was always Hardy's natural genre. It is based on the first edition text, and includes later prefaces and the Wessex Poems "dissolved" into prose.

Contents:

Desperate Remedies

Appendix 1 Hardy's Poems 'dissolved into' Desperate Remedies 383

Appendix 2 Later Prefaces to the Novel 388.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0192840703

OCLC:

52485881