...Daniel Williams This essay considers the significance of rumor in the work of Thomas Hardy, anchoring its claims in a reading of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). I argue that rumor conditions the narrative movement of this novel through its linked operations in social space and bodily sensation...

...Anick S. Rolland Abstract Reconsidering Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman in view of newly discovered textual discrepancies between editions and critical scholarship, this essay makes a necessary intervention in the reading tradition of the rape-fall-punishment triad...

...Alicia Christoff This essay traces the connections between Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) and the work of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic writer D. W. Winnicott, particularly his essay “The Capacity to Be Alone” (1958). It argues that reading Hardy alongside British object...

...Erag Ramizi Abstract This article reads Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles as one instance of the way literary engagements with the peasant question in late nineteenth-century Europe at once shed light onto the lived experiences of rural populations and elaborated the theoretical...

... to an ongoing reconsideration of historical consciousness in the context of the climate crisis. Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles recursively activates scalar multiplicity: first, by dramatizing the intersection of scales of value, time, and space; and second, by suggesting that this drama may be understood...

.... First of all, it is a major contribution to the criticism on George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. The book's sustained and attentive readings of The Mill on the Floss , Middlemarch , The Return of the Native , and Tess of the D'Urbervilles should be debated and discussed alongside classic scholarship...

.... Rider . She . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991 . Hardy , Thomas . Tess of the D'Urbervilles . 1891. New York: Penguin, 2003 . Lang , Andrew . “Realism and Romance.” Contemporary Review 52 ( July–Dec. 1887 ): 683 –93. Lévi Strauss , Claude . The Elementary Structures...

... , bildungsroman in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure ), it would be interesting to see this book engage alternative accounts of what diminished protagonists do for certain genres and forms: the trope of frozen youth Jed Esty finds dragging the tempo and changing the pitch of national-developmental...

..., Abandoned Boots,” a title that aptly summarizes The Woodlanders and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (while permitting escape from the excesses of Jude the Obscure ). Ablow addresses the “personifying pathos” (118) of the wounded trees, although the suggestion that we do not normally think of trees as having...

... sisters (Emily's Wuthering Heights , Charlotte's Jane Eyre , and Anne's Agnes Grey ); Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Great Expectations ; George Eliot's Middlemarch ; Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd (with passages from Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure ); Arthur Conan...

... of the consciousnesses of Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Tess in Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) (85). I can see the advance, certainly, but not as a response to Ellis. Multiple influences would more likely have converged to alter Hardy's fictional art, including an increased interest...

... . Ed. Wilson Keith . London : Penguin , 1997 . ———. Tess of the D'Urbervilles . Ed. Skilton David . London : Penguin , 1985 . Jameson Fredric . Marxism and Form . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1971 . Lukács Georg . “Healthy or Sick Art?” Writer and Critic...

... are—like the paired outcomes for sets of sisters in an Austen novel, or the four distinct fates of the milkmaids besotted with Angel Clare in Tess of the D’Urbervilles—pathways grooved into the floor of the novel, down which its characters will or will not roll, moved by initial input but also...

... the outcome is already determined and lies ahead in the pages that we have yet to read. (I’m interested in the role of repetition in this. Why do we engage in magical thinking even when we are rereading a text? I can’t be the only person who rereads Tess of the D’Urbervilles willing Angel’s letter...

... that Hardy's work shows, in its resistance to narrative teleology, the assimilation of Darwinian ideas into the representational registers of traditional realism. The tragic fate of Tess Durbeyfield, to name one of Hardy's most famous characters, can be traced back to her environment (the rapidly changing...

..., and she helped design the Lenox Library's interior in a way that would have saved her character: “if Charity had only been granted access to . . . a space designed to accommodate social discourse in addition to reading and individual contemplation,” or had read works such as Thomas Hardy's Tess...

... –76. Scarry , Elaine . “Work and the Body in Hardy and Other Nineteenth-Century Novelists.” Resisting Representation . New York: Oxford UP, 1994 . 49 –90. Shires , Linda . “The Radical Aesthetic of Tess of the d'Urbervilles.” The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy . Ed. Dale...

... form necessarily appears as a “bad infinity,” in Lukács's terms ( 109 ), rather than allowing for a novelistic unity. 5 Contrast this with the extremely complicated temporal logic of forgiveness in Thomas Hardy's novels of the same period, The Mayor of Casterbridge , Tess...

... on display in Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs (1888), Gissing's New Grub Street (1891), Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1892), Gissing's The Odd Women (1893), Moore's Esther Waters ( 1894 ), Ella Hepworth Dixon's Story of a Modern Woman (1894), H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay (1908), and Arnold...

.... The agricultural menace of America, then, is doubly forestalled by Hardy's setting and by the particulars of his plot. In such Wessex novels as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, with its idealized dairymaids, and Mayor, with its heroic corn merchants, agriculture stands as a sign of the local, an organic link...