Egoist (NCE): 0 (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Meredith, George; Adams, Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393091716 ISBN 13: 9780393091717

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979

Synopsis

The editor has corrected some errors which escaped Meredith's attention and has provided exceptionally useful notes on the novel. "Backgrounds" includes Meredith's "Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit." "The Critical Essays" are by Robert D. Mayo, Richard B. Hudson, Jenni Calder, Gillian Beer, John Goode, Charles J. Hill, Michael Sundell, Virginia Woolf, John Lucas, and Robert M. Adams. A Bibliography is also included.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert M. Adams was Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics; Strains of Discord; Proteus, His Lies, His Truth: Discussion of Literary Translation; The Land and Literature of England; and Shakespeare-The Four Romances. In addition to the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (he was translator and editor of the First and Second Editions), Professor Adams was editor of five other Norton Critical Editions, including The Prince by Machiavelli, Candide by Voltaire, and The Praise of Folly and Other Writings by Erasmus, the texts of which he also translated. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0393091716
• ISBN 13: 9780393091717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576