· Expanded footnotes by Ralph Pite, further drawing out Hardy¿s web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in which he embeds this narrative.
· A selection of Hardy¿s poems¿four of them new to the Third Edition¿that emphasizes the biographical contexts from which parts of Jude the Obscure arose.
· Eighteen critical responses, including eleven modern essays¿eight of them new to the Third Edition. Simon Gatrell, Michael Hollington, Elaine Showalter, Victor Luftig, and Mary Jacobus are among the new voices.