Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Subtitle: complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
By: Thomas Hardy ; edited by John Paul Riquelme.
Contributors: Riquelme, John Paul.
Series: Case studies in contemporary criticism
Publisher: Bedford Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 606
Subjects: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Children of the rich -- Fiction; Children of clergy -- Fiction; Women domestics -- Fiction; Women murderers -- Fiction; Poor families -- Fiction; Wessex (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: This critical edition of Thomas Hardy's 1891 British Victorian novel reprints the authoritative second impression of the 1920 Wessex edition together with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised - that read Tess of the d'Urbervilles from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach.

In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Hardy and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.