[hardy-l] Fwd: Shock re-ending of Tess of the d'Urbervilles

[Betty Cortus]

I'm forwarding this message  for the benefit of those of you who  
don't subscribe to VICTORIA.  I will send any responses coming to the  
Forum to Judith.
Thanks,
Betty

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> From: Judith Flanders <mail at JUDITHFLANDERS.CO.UK>
> Date: May 15, 2009 8:29:40 AM PDT
> To: VICTORIA at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
> Subject: Shock re-ending of Tess of the d'Urbervilles
> Reply-To: VICTORIA 19th-Century British Culture & Society  
> <VICTORIA at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU>
>
> I'm not a Hardy scholar, but needing to check an early edition for the
> original title, I noticed in an 1892 New York edition that the  
> ending was no
> longer the well-known ''Justice' was done, and the President of the
> Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess',  
> but instead
> a deeply (to me) unsatisfactory ''Justice' was done, and the  
> Archsatirist,
> had had his joke out with Tess'.
>
> Does anyone know the story behind this? It's hard to imagine that the
> wonderfully resonant original was given up lightly - or was the latter
> phrase (gulp) Hardy's first stab at it?
>
> A slightly shell-shocked
>
> Judith
>
>
>
> Judith Flanders
>
> mail2 at judithflanders.co.uk
>
>
>

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