Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a sourcebook / edited by Scott McEathron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McEathron, Scott, 1962-

Series:

Routledge guides to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Hardy, Thomas.

Physical Description:

xiv, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

A tragic tale of cruel fates, touching on rape, illegitimate birth and murder. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) shocked its early audiences, but has proved to be one of the most enduring and influential works of English literature.

Contents:

1 Contexts 9

Contemporary Documents 20

Thomas Hardy, 'Candour in English Fiction' (1890) 20

Thomas Hardy, excerpt from serialized version of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) 25

Thomas Hardy, Selection of Poems 26

Tess's Lament 27

We Field-Women 29

The Well-Beloved 29

The Ruined Maid 31

At a Hasty Wedding 32

A Hurried Meeting 32

The Turnip-Hoer 33

Winter in Durnover Field 35

Doom and She 36

The Lacking Sense 37

Richard Jeffries, 'The Labourer's Daily Life', Fraser's Magazine (1874) 38

Richard Jeffries, 'Field-Faring Women', Fraser's Magazine (1875) 40

Anon., 'The Virgin Forest [of Brazil]', Bentley's Miscellany (1864) 41

James Fergusson, 'Stonehenge', Quarterly Review (1860) 42

2 Interpretations 45

Critical History 47

Early Critical Reception 56

From Clementina Black, Illustrated London News (1892) 56

From Anon., Athenaeum (1892) 57

From R. H. Hutton, Spectator (1892) 58

From Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood's Magazine (1892) 58

From Mowbray Morris, 'Culture and Anarchy', Quarterly Review (1892) 61

Modern Criticism 64

The Character of Tess 64

From Irving Howe, Thomas Hardy (1967) 64

From Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (1971) 66

From Penelope Vigar, The Novels of Thomas Hardy: Illusion and Reality (1974) 69

From Mary Jacobus, 'Tess's Purity', Essays in Criticism (1976) 72

From John Bayley, An Essay on Hardy (1978) 75

From Janet Freeman, 'Ways of Looking at Tess', Studies in Philology (1982) 76

From Simon Gatrell, Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind (1993) 78

From Peter Widdowson, '"Moments of Vision": Postmodernising Tess of the d'Urbervilles' (1994) 79

Hardy's Philosophical Views 81

From Dorothy Van Ghent, The English Novel: Form and Function (1953) 81

From Tony Tanner, 'Colour and Movement in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles' (1968) 83

From F. B. Pinion, Hardy the Writer (1990) 85

Tess and Sexuality 87

From Penny Boumelha, Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form (1982) 87

From Kristin Brady, 'Tess and Alec: Rape or Seduction?' (1986) 89

From James Kincaid, '"You did not come": Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess' (1990) 92

From William A. Davis, Jr, 'The Rape of Tess: Hardy, English Law, and the Case for Sexual Assault' (1997) 93

From Lisa Sternlieb, '"Three Leahs to Get One Rachel": Redundant Women in Tess of the d'Urbervilles' (2000) 95

Hardy on Nature and Society 97

From David Lodge, The Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel (1967) 97

From Merryn Williams, Thomas Hardy and Rural England (1972) 99

From Ian Gregor, The Great Web: The Form of Hardy's Major Fiction (1974) 101

From Bruce Johnson, '"The Perfection of Species" and Hardy's Tess' (1977) 104

From Adam Gussow, 'Dreaming Holmberry-Lipped Tess: Aboriginal Reverie and Spectatorial Desire in Tess of the d'Urbervilles' (2000) 106

The Work in Performance 110

3 Key Passages 115

Key Passages 120

From 'Phase the First: The Maiden' 120

From Chapter 2: The Village of Marlott, and the May-Day Dance 120

From Chapter 2: An Early Description of Tess 122

From Chapter 4: The Death of Prince 123

From Chapter 5: Discussion of the d'Urberville Lineage; Tess Meets Alec d'Urberville 128

From Chapter 11: The Journey through The Chase, and Tess's Rape 132

From 'Phase the Second: Maiden No More' 136

From Chapter 14: The Midnight Baptism and the Burial of Sorrow 136

From 'Phase the Third: The Rally' 140

From Chapter 18: Introduction of Angel Clare 140

From Chapter 19: Tess and Angel in the Garden 142

Chapter 20: The Pastoral Interlude at Talbothays 146

From 'Phase the Fourth: The Consequence' 150

From Chapter 34: Angel Confesses his Past 150

From 'Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays' 153

From Chapter 35: Angel's Immediate Reaction to Tess's Confession 153

From Chapter 42: Initial Description of Flintcomb-Ash Farm 159

From 'Phase the Sixth: The Convert' 165

Chapter 47: Threshing Scene; Renewal of Alec d'Urberville's Attentions to Tess 165

From 'Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment' 172

From Chapter 55: Description of Sandbourne 172

From Chapter 55: Angel Presents Himself to Tess 173

From Chapter 56: Tess's Murder of Alec 175

From Chapters 57 and 58: The Idyll at the Deserted Mansion 178

From Chapter 58: Tess and Angel at Stonehenge 181

From Chapter 59: Tess's Fate, and the Novel's Closing Paragraphs 183

Primary Sources and Biographical Studies of Hardy 187

General Studies of Hardy's Fiction and Poetry 188

Studies of Tess 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-189) and index.

ISBN:

0415255279

0415255287

OCLC:

56065126