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George Eliot

Adam Bede (Clarendon Edition of the Novels of George Eliot)

By George Eliot

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| Hardcover | 9780198125952

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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 boContinue

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.

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  • The house where George Eliot spent the last few weeks of her life in 1880

    Number 4 will be of interest to fans of George Eliot, for this is the house she spent the last few weeks of her life before she died of kidney failure in December 1880. According to my copy of London: City of Words, George had "moved there with her y ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Tue, 14 Feb 2012

  • Book review: George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife

    THE ECONOMY OF THE EMINENT Lives series of shorter biographies means a greater emphasis placed on what is important, and for acclaimed biographer Brenda Maddox, that is George Eliot's looks, her money, and her love affair with George Henry Lewes. The ... (read full critics)

    thescotsman published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

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  • Absolutely wonderful character descriptions. Delightful scenes of life and the problems people faced in a society that worked according to status.

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