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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

First Edition ©1998 Thomas Hardy; Edited by John Paul Riquelme

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 introd...
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy; Edited by John Paul Riquelme - First Edition, 1998 from Macmillan Student Store

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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Table of Contents

  About the Series
  About This Volume
    
PART I. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES: THE COMPLETE TEXT
    
  Introduction: Biographical and Historical Context
    
  The Complete Text [1920 Wessex Edition]
    
PART II. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
    
  A Critical History of Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    
  New Historicism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    What Is New Historicism?
    New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
    A New Historicist Perspective:
       Catherine Gallagher, Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Hardy's Anthropology of the Novel
    
  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:
       Ellen Rooney, Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence: Reading, Rape, Seduction
    
  Deconstruction and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    What Is Deconstruction?
    Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
    A Deconstructive Perspective:
       John Paul Riquelme, Echoic Language, Uncertainty, and Freedom in Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    
  Reader-Response Criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    What Is Reader-Response Criticism?
    Reader-Response Criticism: A Selelcted Bibliography
    A Reader-Response Perspective:
       Garrett Stewart, "Driven Well Home to the Reader's Heart": Tess's Implicated Audience
    
  Cultural Criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    What Is Cultural Criticism?
    Cultual Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Cultual Perspective:
       Jennifer Wicke, The Same and the Different: Standards and Standardization in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    
    
  Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
    
  About the Contributors

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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 Joyce's 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, Joyce's 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 Wilde's 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.