Tess of the d'urbervilles

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1 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'urbervilles A Sourcebook Edited by Scott McEothron Routledge Taylor&FrancisGroup LONDON AND NEW YORK

2 Contents List of Illustrations Annotation and Footnotes Acknowledgements xi xii xiii Introduction I I: Contexts 9 Contextual Overview I I Chronology 16 Contemporary Documents 20 Thomas Hardy, 'Candour in English Fiction' (1890) 20 Thomas Hardy, excerpt from serialized version of Tess of the d'urbervilles (1891)' 25 Thomas Hardy, Selection of Poems 26 Tess's Lament 27 We Field-Women 29 The Well-Beloved 29 The Ruined Maid 31 At a Hasty Wedding 32 A Hurried Meeting 32 The Turnip-Hoer 33 Winter in Durnover Field 35 Doom and She 36 The Lacking Sense 37 Richard Jeffries, 'The Labourer's Daily Life', Eraser's Magazine (1874) 38 Richard Jeffries, 'Field-Faring Women', Fraser's Magazine (1875) 40 Anon., 'The Virgin Forest [of Brazil]', Bentley's Miscellany (1864) 41 James Fergusson, 'Stonehenge', Quarterly Review (1860) 42

3 viii CONTENTS 2: Interpretations 45 Critical History 47 Early Critical Reception 56 From Clementina Black, Illustrated London News (1892) 56 From Anon., Athenaeum (1892) 57 From R. H. Hutton, Spectator (1892) 58 From Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood's Magazine (1892) 58 From Mowbray Morris, 'Culture and Anarchy', Quarterly Review (1892) 61 Modern Criticism 64 The Character of Tess 64 From Irving Howe, Thomas Hardy (1967) 64 From Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (1971) 66 From Penelope Vigar, The Novels of Thomas Hardy: Illusion and Reality (1974) 69 From Mary Jacobus, 'Tess's Purity', Essays in Criticism (1976) 72 From John Bayley, An Essay on Hardy (1978) 75 From Janet Freeman, 'Ways of Looking at Tess', Studies in Philology (1982) 76 From Simon Gatrell, Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind (1993) 78 From Peter Widdowson, ' "Moments of Vision": Postmodernising Tess of the d'urbervilles'(1994) 79 Hardy's Philosophical Views 81 From Dorothy Van Ghent, The English Novel: Form and Function (1953) 81 From Tony Tanner, 'Colour and Movement in Hardy's Tess of the d'urbervilles' (1968) 83 From F. B. Pinion, Hardy the Writer (1990) 85 Tess and Sexuality 87 From Penny Boumelha, Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form (1982) 87 From Kristin Brady, 'Tess and Alec: Rape or Seduction?' (1986) 89 From James Kincaid,' "You did not come": Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess' (1990) 92 From William A. Davis, Jr, 'The Rape of Tess: Hardy, English Law, and the Case for Sexual Assault' (1997) 93 From Lisa Sternlieb,' "Three Leahs to Get One Rachel": Redundant Women in Tess of the d'urbervilles' (2000) 95 Hardy on Nature and Society 97 From David Lodge, The Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel (1967) 97

4 CONTENTS ix From Merryn Williams, Thomas Hardy and Rural England (1972) 99 From Ian Gregor, The Great Web: The Form of Hardy's Major Fiction (1974) 101 From Bruce Johnson,' "The Perfection of Species" and Hardy's Tess' (1977) 104 From Adam Gussow, 'Dreaming Holmberry-Lipped Tess: Aboriginal Reverie and Spectatorial Desire in Tess of the d'urbervilles' (2000) 106 The Work in Performance I 10 3: Key Passages I 15 Introduction I 17 Key Passages 120 From 'Phase the First: The Maiden' 120 From Chapter 2: The Village of Marlon, and the May-Day Dance 120 From Chapter 2: An Early Description of Tess 122 From Chapter 4: The Death of Prince 123 From Chapter 5: Discussion of the d'urberville Lineage; Tess Meets Alec d'urberville 128 From Chapter 11: The Journey through The Chase, and Tess's Rape 132 From 'Phase the Second: Maiden No More' 136 From Chapter 14: The Midnight Baptism and the Burial of Sorrow 136 From 'Phase the Third: The Rally' 140 From Chapter 18: Introduction of Angel Clare 140 From Chapter 19: Tess and Angel in the Garden 142 Chapter 20: The Pastoral Interlude at Talbothays 146 From 'Phase the Fourth: The Consequence' 150 From Chapter 34: Angel Confesses his Past 150 From 'Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays' 153 From Chapter 35: Angel's Immediate Reaction to Tess's Confession 153 From Chapter 42: Initial Description of Flintcomb-Ash Farm 159 From 'Phase the Sixth: The Convert' 165 Chapter 47: Threshing Scene; Renewal of Alec d'urberville's Attentions to Tess 165

5 CONTENTS From 'Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment' 172 From Chapter 55: Description of Sandbourne 172 From Chapter 55: Angel Presents Himself to Tess 173 From Chapter 56: Tess's Murder of Alec 175 From Chapters 57 and 58: The Idyll at the Deserted Mansion 178 From Chapter 58: Tess and Angel at Stonehenge 181 From Chapter 59: Tess's Fate, and the Novel's Closing Paragraphs 183 4: Further Reading 185 Primary Sources and Biographical Studies of Hardy 187 General Studies of Hardy's Fiction and Poetry 188 Studies of Tess 189 Web Resources 189 Index 190