| Description |
xii, 606 pages : map, illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Case studies in contemporary criticism
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Case studies in contemporary criticism.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: the complete text. Introduction: Biographical and historical contexts ; The complete text. -- pt. 2. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: a case study in contemporary criticism. A critical history of Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; The new historicism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What is new historicism? ; The new historicism: a selected bibliography ; A new historicist perspective: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Hardy's anthropology of the novel / Catherine Gallagher ; Feminist and gender criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What are feminist and gender criticism? ; Feminist and gender criticism: a selected bibliography ; A feminist and gender perspective; Tess and the subject of sexual violence reading, rape, seduction / Ellen Rooney ; Deconstruction and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What is deconstruction? ; Deconstruction: a selected bibliography ; A deconstructive perspective: Echoic language, uncertainty, and freedom in Tess of the d'Urbervilles / John Paul Riquelme ; Reader-response criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What is reader-response criticism? ; Reader-response criticism: a selected bibliography ; A reader-response perspective: "Driven well home to the reader's heart": Tess's implicated audience / Garrett Stewart ; Cultural criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What is cultural criticism? ; Cultural criticism: a selected bibliography ; A cultural perspective: The same and the different: standards and standardization in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Jennifer Wicke. -- Glossary of critical and theoretical terms. |
| Summary |
Presents the classic story of Tess, a young woman who finds herself the victim of men, fate, and forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England, and includes a history of critical commentary on the novel, and five analytical essays. |
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy, Thomas) |
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles. |
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships. |
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Children of the rich -- Fiction.
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Children of the rich. |
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Children of clergy -- Fiction.
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Children of clergy. |
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Wessex (England) -- Fiction.
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Women household employees -- Fiction.
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Women household employees. |
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Women murderers -- Fiction.
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Women murderers. |
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Poor families -- Fiction.
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Poor families. |
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Didactic fiction.
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Didactic fiction. |
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England -- Wessex. |
| Genre/Form |
Didactic fiction.
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Pastoral fiction.
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| Subject |
Love triangles. |
| Added Author |
Riquelme, John Paul.
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| ISBN |
0312163754 (hardcover) |
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9780312163754 (hardcover) |
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0312106882 (paperback) |
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9780312106881 (paperback) |
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033369094X (paperback) |
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9780333690949 (paperback) |
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