Acknowledgements | |
General Editors' Preface | |
Introduction: Tess of the d'Urbervilles Faithfully Presented | p. 1 |
Hardy and Social Class | p. 24 |
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Towards a Materialist Criticism | p. 33 |
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form | p. 44 |
Tess: A Less than Pure Woman Ambivalently Presented | p. 63 |
Fallen Woman as Sign, and Narrative Syntax in Tess of the d'Urbervilles | p. 80 |
A Tess for Child Molesters | p. 90 |
'A Tragedy of Modern Life?' Polanski's Tess | p. 95 |
Language and the Shape of Reality in Tess of the d'Urbervilles | p. 109 |
History, Figuration and Female Subjectivity in Tess of the d'Urbervilles | p. 129 |
The Violence of Style in Tess of the d'Urbervilles | p. 147 |
Geographies of Hardy's Wessex in Tess of the d'Urbervilles | p. 157 |
Creating Tess, 1892 | p. 172 |
The Offensive Truth: Tess of the d'Urbervilles | p. 184 |
Further Reading | p. 201 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 205 |
Index | p. 207 |
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