Tess of the D'Urbervilles
First Edition ©1998 Thomas Hardy; Edited by John Paul Riquelme Formats: Print
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Authors
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Thomas Hardy
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John Paul Riquelme
John Paul Riquelme is a professor of English at Boston University. His publications include Teller and Tale in Joyces Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives (1983); Harmony and Dissonances: T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination (1991); and several edited collections of essays: by the Swiss critic Fritz Senn, Joyces Dislocutions: Essays on Reading as Translation (1984); Gothic & Modernism: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity (2008); and critical responses to T. S. Eliot (2009). He is currently at work on studies focusing on Oscar Wildes relation to modernism and on the cultural logic of nineteenth-century gothic narratives, as well as a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies concerning Modernist Life Narratives.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, though he saw himself as a poet and wrote novels mainly for financial gain only. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances.
Table of Contents
About This Volume
PART I. TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES: THE COMPLETE TEXT
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Context
The Complete Text [1920 Wessex Edition]
PART II. TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
A Critical History of Tess of the dUrbervilles
New Historicism and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Is New Historicism?
New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
A New Historicist Perspective:
Catherine Gallagher, Tess of the dUrbervilles: Hardys Anthropology of the Novel
Feminist and Gender Criticism and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Are Feminist and Gender Criticism?
Feminist and Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Feminist and Gender Perspective:
Ellen Rooney, Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence: Reading, Rape, Seduction
Deconstruction and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Is Deconstruction?
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
A Deconstructive Perspective:
John Paul Riquelme, Echoic Language, Uncertainty, and Freedom in Tess of the dUrbervilles
Reader-Response Criticism and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Is Reader-Response Criticism?
Reader-Response Criticism: A Selelcted Bibliography
A Reader-Response Perspective:
Garrett Stewart, "Driven Well Home to the Readers Heart": Tesss Implicated Audience
Cultural Criticism and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Is Cultural Criticism?
Cultual Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Cultual Perspective:
Jennifer Wicke, The Same and the Different: Standards and Standardization in Thomas Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
About the Contributors
Product Updates
Authors
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Thomas Hardy
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John Paul Riquelme
John Paul Riquelme is a professor of English at Boston University. His publications include Teller and Tale in Joyces Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives (1983); Harmony and Dissonances: T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination (1991); and several edited collections of essays: by the Swiss critic Fritz Senn, Joyces Dislocutions: Essays on Reading as Translation (1984); Gothic & Modernism: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity (2008); and critical responses to T. S. Eliot (2009). He is currently at work on studies focusing on Oscar Wildes relation to modernism and on the cultural logic of nineteenth-century gothic narratives, as well as a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies concerning Modernist Life Narratives.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, though he saw himself as a poet and wrote novels mainly for financial gain only. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances.
Table of Contents
About This Volume
PART I. TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES: THE COMPLETE TEXT
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Context
The Complete Text [1920 Wessex Edition]
PART II. TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
A Critical History of Tess of the dUrbervilles
New Historicism and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Is New Historicism?
New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
A New Historicist Perspective:
Catherine Gallagher, Tess of the dUrbervilles: Hardys Anthropology of the Novel
Feminist and Gender Criticism and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Are Feminist and Gender Criticism?
Feminist and Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Feminist and Gender Perspective:
Ellen Rooney, Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence: Reading, Rape, Seduction
Deconstruction and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Is Deconstruction?
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
A Deconstructive Perspective:
John Paul Riquelme, Echoic Language, Uncertainty, and Freedom in Tess of the dUrbervilles
Reader-Response Criticism and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Is Reader-Response Criticism?
Reader-Response Criticism: A Selelcted Bibliography
A Reader-Response Perspective:
Garrett Stewart, "Driven Well Home to the Readers Heart": Tesss Implicated Audience
Cultural Criticism and Tess of the dUrbervilles
What Is Cultural Criticism?
Cultual Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Cultual Perspective:
Jennifer Wicke, The Same and the Different: Standards and Standardization in Thomas Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
About the Contributors
Product Updates
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
This critical edition of Thomas Hardy’s widely taught 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with critical essays that approach the work from 5 contemporary critical perspectives and highly praised editorial apparatus that introduces students to the novel and the perspectives.
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