Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy

ISBN-13: 9780333545850 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 211 str.

Peter Widdowson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; P.Widdowson.- Essays by; M.and R.Williams G.Wotton P.Boumelha L.Claridge P.Ingham J.Marcus P.Widdowson C.Thompson K.Silverman J.J.Lecercle J.Barrell S.Gatrell J.Goode.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

PETER WIDDOWSON is Professor of Literature, University of Brighton.