Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy (New Casebooks, 112) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333545850 ISBN 13: 9780333545850

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 1993

Synopsis

Thomas Hardy has long been critically constructed as 'poet of Wessex' and 'novelist of Character and Environment'. This volume offers to deconstruct such a mythic 'Hardy' in selecting contemporary critical essays which re-present Tess from very different critical perspectives. Feminist, cultural-materialist and poststructuralist approaches in particular explore gender, class and language by way of the novel's riven textuality. In the process, the Introduction claims, Tess emerges as a potent postmodern text.

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Book Description:

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is edited by Rex Gibson, Director, Shakespeare and Schools Project.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0333545850
• ISBN 13: 9780333545850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 211
• Editor: Widdowson Peter