Tess of the d''Urbervilles: A Norton Critical Edition

About Thomas Hardy

Phillip Mallett is honorary senior lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews a vice president of the Thomas Hardy Society and an honorary fellow of both the Centro Universitario di Studi Vittoriani e Edoardiani and the French Association for Thomas Hardy Studies. He was the editor of the Thomas Hardy Journal from 2008 to 2018. His published work includes?Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life; eight edited collections of essays including?Thomas Hardy in Context?and?The Victorian Novel and Masculinity; Norton Critical Editions of?The Return of the Native and?The Mayor of Casterbridge; and?editions of Under the Greenwood Tree and Flora Thompsons?Lark Rise to Candleford?for Oxford Worlds Classics. Jane Thomas is emeritus professor of English at the University of Hull. She is a vice-president of the Thomas Hardy Society and was for over a decade the Societys academic director. Her publications include Thomas Hardy Femininity and Dissent: Reassessing the Minor Novels; Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self; and editions of Hardys The Well-Beloved with The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved A Changed Man and Other Stories and Lifes Little Ironies. She has also written on Thomas Hardy and the visual arts with special reference to the sculpture of Hamo Thornycroft on Hardy and the Boer War and on Hardy and masculinity. She is coeditor with Sue Kennedy of British Womens Writing 1930 to 1960: Between the Waves. Thomas Hardy (18401928) enduring author of the twentieth century wrote the classics Jude the Obscure Tess of the d'Urbervilles Far from the Madding Crowd The Return of the Native The Mayor of Casterbridge and many other works.