Adam Bede

George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (Professor of English, Boise State University)

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English

Oxford University Press
01 April 2001

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Clarendon Edition of the Novels of George Eliot

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 manuscript 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 also 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, giving detailed attention to the dialect in the context of more than 900 variants between manuscript and first edition.

By: George Eliot
Edited by: Carol A. Martin (Professor of English Boise State University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 149mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198125952
ISBN 10: 019812595X
Series: Clarendon Edition of the Novels of George Eliot
Pages: 684
Publication Date: 01 April 2001
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Adam Bede

Superb scholarly edition of Eliot's Adam Bede ... An indispensable purchase for all academic libraries and large public libraries Choice Key to this volume is the 158-page introduction, which is full of erudition, packed with information, and concludes with a descriptive listing of editions of Adam Bede Choice