Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)
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For a man and a woman to live on intimate terms when one feels as
I do is adultery : a sentiment familiar from Grant Allen’s The Woman who Did ( ): ‘Unchastity . . . is union without love.’ J. S. Mill’s words: the quotation from John Stuart Mill On Liberty () first appears in . Mill (partly because of his On the Subjection of Women ) was standard reading already for the fictional ‘New Woman’ such as Evadne in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins ( ), or Jessamine in A Super fluous Woman (). argumentum ad verecundiam : argument based on an appeal to the statements of recognized authorities. Humboldt: the words are quoted from Wilhelm von Humboldt’s The Sphere and Duties of Government ( ) in Mill’s On Liberty. The citation captures Humboldt’s stress on the importance of individual freedom even for the vitality of the whole state and nation. The reference was added in . ‘Where Duncliffe . . . Away . . .’: both quotations are from Shaftesbury Feair by William Barnes ( –), the dialect poet and Hardy’s much admired friend. ‘Where Stour . . . fed’: from Drayton’s Polyolbion. toled: enticed. Cf. Tess, who speaks dialect at home and ‘ordinary English’ abroad. Yes; with a curious . . . seemingly ( , also): MS: ‘I am not sure that the word loving describes it.’ They seem to be one person split in two! : this, like pp. and , suggests Explanatory Notes a comparison with Catherine and Heathcli ff in Wuthering Heights, who also claim to be one person. See notes to p. above and pp. and below. good-now: Hardy glossed this as ‘you may be sure’ something within me tells me (, also): in MS the inner something is speci fied as being ‘the voice of God speaking through nature’. See also note to p. below for another removal of a religious reference. Laon and Cythna: a reference to lovers in Shelley’s poem of that name ( ), who were in an earlier version brother and sister. See also p. below. Paul and Virginia: lovers in J. H. B. de Saint Pierre’s novel ( ) who grow up as brother and sister. See notes to pp. and above. rummer: large glass. rafted : troubled, disturbed. appearance of kissing her . . . imitated: this pretence of Sue’s is inserted in ; in MS, , and ‘she shrank even from that’ (the feigned kiss). This shrinking was in keeping with her original simple spontaneity. See note to p. above. ‘The soldier-saints . . . bliss’: Browning, ‘The Statue and the Bust’. Jude asserts not a loss of faith, but a refusal to keep the Commandments. See also pp. , , , . The Church . . . but here. ( , also): Jude’s recognition that he must turn his back on the Church is not found in MS. the father of a woman’s child . . . her: a view Hardy held strongly, in scandalous opposition to the orthodox opinion that paternity was an important social fact bearing on the inheritance of property and therefore appropriate to be dealt with by laws relating to marriage and divorce. In a letter to Millicent Fawcett, a su ffragette leader, Hardy speaks of ‘the present pernicious conventions in respect of . . . the father of a woman’s child (that it is anybody’s business but the woman’s own, except in cases of disease or insanity)’ (Collected Letters, iii. ). I didn’t dislike you to (): this again is a late increase in Sue’s warmth of feeling as compared with ‘don’t dislike you to, very much’ ( , ). See note to p. above. Crucify me, if you will!: another of Jude’s claims to Christ-status. See note to p. above and contrast notes to pp. and . neither length nor breadth . . . can divide me: Romans : –. Jude’s secular application of Paul’s refusal to be separated from the love of God is in keeping with similar equations which in would have been thought sacrilegious. They had this room : added in ; not in or . just out of her standards: having completed her elementary education by passing seven national tests or ‘standards’, the latter became the term for Explanatory Notes the classes through which successive moves were made by pupils as they passed the tests. Yüklə 1,33 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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