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THE WELL-BELOVED: THOMAS HARDY'S MANIFESTO OF “REGIONAL AESTHETICS”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2008

Yvonne Bezrucka
Yvonne Bezrucka*
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University of Verona
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The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved was first published in serial instalments (from 1 October to 17 December1892) with illustrations by Water Paget; see Figure 6) in the Illustrated London News and were published simultaneously with the same title in the American magazine Harper's Bazar. It then appeared in book form, with substantial revisions, as The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament in 1897, and was, in fact, the last of Hardy's novels to appear (Jude the Obscure being published in 1895).

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 227 - 245
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