Far from the Madding Crowd

Simon Gatrell (1965) is Professor of English at the University of Georgia in Athens. Included amongst his many publications are Under the Greenwood Tree (2019), in this series, and a 1983 edition of Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

• Introduction; Abbreviations; Notes to the edited text; Far From the Madding Crowd; Apparatus: Variants in punctuation and styling; End-of-line hyphenation in the edited text; Editorial emendations in the edited text; Appendices: A. The preface to the novel 1894–1912; B. The manuscript of the leaves excised from the Yale manuscript; C. The draft chapter detailing sheep-rot; D. Detailed analysis of the leaves of the Yale manuscript; E. The establishment of and revisions to the locations of the action; F. Statistical analysis of the primary compositors of the Cornhill episodes; G. The serial episodes; H. The vignette initials from Cornhill and the frontispieces for the two collected editions; I. Bibliographical details; Explanatory notes.