Publisher description for Jude the obscure / Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by J. Hillis Miller.
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Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though we have come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuing century, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power to shock us and disturb our dreams.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Stonemasons Fiction, Children Death Fiction, Adultery Fiction, Wessex (England) Fiction