The Norton Critical Edition also includes:
- 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.
- A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.