Tess of the d'Urbervilles Contents
- Introduction
- Timeline
- Images
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Author(s)
- Hardy, Thomas
- The context of Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- About the text
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles synopses
- Narrative
- Characterisation
- Themes and significant ideas
- Tess as a 'Pure Woman'
- Tess as a secular pilgrim
- Tess as a victim
- The world of women
- Tess as an outsider
- Coincidence, destiny and fate
- Disempowerment of the working class
- Heredity and inheritance
- Laws of nature vs. laws of society
- Modernity
- Nature as sympathetic or indifferent
- Patterns of the past
- Sexual predation
- Inner conflicts: body against soul
- Imagery and symbolism in Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Structure
- Critical analysis
- Approaching exams and essays
- Resources and further reading
Websites
The Victorian Web: A useful website for all Victorian literature.
The Thomas Hardy Society (UK): The website for the U.K. based Hardy Society. If you prefer to write to them, their address is:
PO Box 1438,
Dorchester,
Dorset,
DT1 1YH
The society has a number of publications and sometimes runs conferences.
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