The text of the novel is again based on Hardy's final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition. The
Norton Critical Edition includes: expanded footnotes further drawing out Hardy's web of
allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in which he embeds this narrative
a selection of Hardy's poems-four of them new to this edition-that emphasises the biographical
contexts from which parts of Jude the Obscure arose nineteen critical responses including
twelve modern essays-eight of them new to the third edition. Simon Gatrell Michael Hollington
Elaine Showalter Victor Luftig and Mary Jacobus are among the new voices. Included are a
chronology and revised and expanded selected bibliography.
