Cover: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1st Edition by Thomas Hardy; Edited by John Paul Riquelme

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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

Authors

  • Headshot of Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy


  • Headshot of John Paul Riquelme

    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.

Table of Contents

  About the Series
  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

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