Bibliograph

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives, Thomas Hardy ; edited by John Paul Riquelme

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles, complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives, Thomas Hardy ; edited by John Paul Riquelme

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

39032794

Responsibility statement

Thomas Hardy ; edited by John Paul Riquelme

Series statement

Case studies in contemporary criticism

Sub title

complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives

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

Table Of 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

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