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Thomas Hardy has long been critically constructed as 'poet of Wessex' and 'novelist of Character and Environment'. This volume offers to deconstruct such a mythic 'Hardy' in selecting contemporary critical essays which re-present Tess from very different critical perspectives. Feminist, cultural-materialist and poststructuralist approaches in particular explore gender, class and language by way of the novel's riven textuality. In the process, the Introduction claims, Tess emerges as a potent postmodern text.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- General Editorsā Preface
- Introduction: Tess of the dāUrbervilles Faithfully Presented By Peter Widdowson
- 1. Hardy and Social Class: Merryn and Raymond Williams
- 2. Tess of the dāUrbervilles: Towards a Materialist Criticism: George Wotton
- 3. Tess of the dāUrbervilles: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form: Penny Boumelha
- 4. Tess: A Less than Pure Woman Ambivalently Presented: Laura Claridge
- 5. Fallen Woman as Sign, and Narrative Syntax in Tess of the dāUrbervilles: Patricia Ingham
- 6. A Tess for Child Molestors: Jane Marcus
- 7. āA Tragedy of Modern Life?ā Polanskiās Tess: Peter Widdowson
- 8. Language and the Shape of Reality in Tess of the dāUrbervilles: Charlotte Thompson
- 9. History, Figuration and Female Subjectivity in Tess of the dāUrbervilles: Kaja Silverman
- 10. The Violence of Style in Tess of the dāUrbervilles: Jean Jacques Lecercle
- 11. Geographies of Hardyās Wessex in Tess of the dāUrbervilles: John Barrell
- 12. Creating Tess, 1892: Simon Gatrell
- 13. The Offensive Truth: Tess of the dāUrbervilles: John Goode
- Further Reading
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- eCopyright