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Some Suggested Sources for Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Anderson, Carol Reed. “Time, Space, and Perspective in Thomas Hardy.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction. 9.3 (December 1954): 192-208.
Beer, Gillian. "Finding a Scale for the Human: Plot and Writing in Hardy's Novels." In Kramer. 54-72.
Bernstein, Susan David."Confessing and Editing: The Politics of Purity in Hardy's Tess. In Lloyd Davis, ed. Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature. SUNY Press, '93
Blake, Kathleen. "Pure Tess: Hardy on Knowing a Woman." In Kramer. 204-219.
Bonica, Charlotte. “Nature and Paganism in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. ELH 49.4 (Winter 1982): 849-862.
Boone, Joseph. Tradition/Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Bonaparte, Felicia. “The Deadly Misreading of Mythic Texts: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles.” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 5.3 (Winter 1999): 415-431.
Boumelha, Penny. Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982.
Brady, Krsitin. “Tess and Alec: Rape or Seduction? Thomas Hardy Annual 4 (1986): 127-147.
Bronfen, Elisabeth. “Pay as You Go: Echanges of Bodies and Signs.” The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy. Ed. Margaret Higonnet. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Campbell, Elizabeth. “Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Misfortune is a Woman.” The Victorian Newsletter 76 (1989): 1-5.
Casgrande, Peter J. “Angel Clare: Beauty Dwells Where Perfection Lives.” Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Unorthodox Beauty. NY: Twayne Publishers, 1992. 99-112.
Claridge, Laura. “Tess: A Less than Pure Woman Ambivalently Presented.” In Widdowson, ed. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. New Casebooks.63-79.
Cox, R.G., ed. [Good resource for contemporary reviews] Thomas Hardy. London: Routledge, 1995.
Davis, Eugene W. “Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Some Ambiguities About A Pure Woman.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 22.4 (1968): 397-401.
Davis, jr., William A. “The Rape of Tess: Hardy, English Law, and the Case for Sexual Assault.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 52.2 (September 1997): 221-31.
Devereauz, Joanna. Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Sexual Politics in Selected Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy. NY: Routledge, 2003.
Freeman, Janet. "Ways of Looking at Tess." Studies in Philology 39.3 (Summer '82): 311-323.
Gallagher, Catherine. “Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Hardy’s Anthropology of the Novel. InJohn Paul Riquelme, ed. and introd. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Boston, MA: Bedford, 1998. 422-40.
Garson, Marjorie. Hardy's Fables of Integrity: Woman, Body, Text. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
Gatrell, Simon. “Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind. Charlottesville, VA: University of VA Press, 1993. 97-139.
Gose, Elliott B. "Psychic Evolution: Darwinism and Initiation in Tess of the d'Urbervilles." In Kramer. 219-28.
Harris, Nicola. “An Impure Woman: The Tragic Paradox and Tess as Totem.” Thomas Hardy Yearbook 26 (1998) 18-21.
Heffernan, James A. W. “'Cruel Persuasion': Seduction, Temptation, and Agency in Hardy's Tess. Thomas Hardy Yearbook 35 (THY) (2005): 5-18.
Higonnet, ed. The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illiniois P, 1993
----. "A Woman's Story: Tess and the Problem of Voice." In Higonnet, ed. 14-31.
Howe, Irving. Thomas Hardy. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1966.
Humma, John B. “Language and Disguise: The Imbery of Nature and Sex in ‘Tess.’” South Atlantic Review 54.4 (November 1989): 63-83.
Ifkovic, Davd A. “Tess as an Innocent.” Thomas Hardy Journal 18.3 (Oct 2002) 112-14.
Jacobus, Mary. "Tess: The Making of a Pure Woman." In Susan Lipshiz, ed. Tearing the Veil: Essays on Femininity. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.
Kramer, Dale, ed. Critical Essays on Thomas Hardy: The Novels. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990.
----, ed. Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Thomas Hardy. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979. 135-54.
Kincaid, “’You did not come’: Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess. In Regina Barreca, ed. Sex and Death in Victorian Literature. London and New York: Macmillan, 1990. 9-31.
Kucich, John. “Moral Authority in the Late Novels: The Gendering of Art.” The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy. Ed. Margaret Higgonet.
LaVAlley, Albert, J. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969.
Lovesey, Oliver. “Reconstructing Tess.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 43.4 (Autumn 2003): 913-38.
Manning, F. “Novels of Character and Environment.” Thomas Hardy: The Tragic Novels. Ed. R. P. Draper. London: Macmillan, 1991. 61-65.
Mickelson, Anne Z. Thomas Hardy’s Women and Men: The Defeat of Nature. Metuchon, NH: The Scarecrow Press, 1976.
Miller, Hillis J. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Repetition as Immanent Design." In Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels. Cambrige, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1982. 116-46.
Morgan, Rosemary. Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy. London: Routledge, 1988.
Morton, Peter R. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Neo-Darwinian Reading." Southern Review 7 (1974): 36-51.
Nemesvari, Richard. “The Thing Must be Male, We Suppose: Erotic Triangles and Masculine Identity in Tess of the d’Urbervillesand Melville’s Billy Budd.” Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Phillip Mallet. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 87-109.
Nunokawa, Jeff. “Tess, Tourism and the Spectacle of the Woman.” In Linda M. Shires, ed. Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender. New York : Routledge, 1992. 71-86.
Parker, Lynn. “’Pure Woman’ and Tragic Heroine? Conflicting Myths in Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles.” Studies in the Novel 24.3 (Fall 1992): 273-281.
Petit, Charles P. C. "Hardy's Vision of the Individual in Tess of the d'Urbervilles. New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy. New York: St. Martin's, 1994. 172-190.
Poole, Adrian. "'Men's Words' and Hardy's Women." Essays in Criticism 31 (1981): 328-44.
Rooney, Ellen. "Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence: Reading, Rape, Seduction." In John Paul Riquelme, ed. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Boston and New York: Bedford, 1998. 462-83.
Sadoff, Dianne Fallon. "Looking at Tess: The Female Figure in Two Narrative Media." In Higonnet. 149-172
Schweik, Robert. "Less than Faithfully Presented: Fictions in Modern Commentaries on Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles." In Charles P. C. Petit, ed. Reading Thomas Hardy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. 33-56.
Silverman, Kaja. "History, Figuration and Female Subjectivity in Tess of the d'Urbervilles. .” In Widdowson, ed. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. New Casebooks. 129-146.
Sommers, Jeffrey. “Hardy’s Other Bildungsroman: Tess of the d’Urbervilles. English Literature in Translation 25.3 (1982): 159-167.
Sternlieb, Lisa. “'Three Leahs to Get One Rachel': Redundant Women in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 29. (2000): 351-65.
Sutherland. “Is Alec a Rapist?” Is Heathcliffe a Murderer—Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. 202-12.
Szumzki, Bonnie, ed. Readings on ‘Tess of the D'Urbervilles’. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven; 2000.
Tanner, Tony. “Colour and Movement in Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” Thomas Hardy: The Tragic Novels. Ed. R.P. Draper, London: Macmillan, 1991. 190-215.
Thompson, Charlotte. “Language and the Shape of Reality in Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” ELH 50.4 (Winter 1983): 729-762.
Waldoff, Leon. "Psychological Determinism in Tess of the d'Urbervilles." In Dale Kramer, ed.
Webster, Roger. ”The Novels of Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles. In Rick Rylance and , Judy Simons. Literature in Context. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave; 2001. 135. 53.
Weissman, Judith. “Thomas Hardy: Modern Men and Milkmaids.” In Half Savage and Hardy and Free. Wesleyan: Wesleyan University Press, 1987. 238-261.
Widdowson, Peter, ed. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. New Casebooks. London and New York: St. Martin’s, 1993.
Williams, Melanie. “'Sensitive as Gossamer': Law and Sexual Encounter in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Thomas Hardy Journal 17.1. (Feb. 2001): 54-60.
Williams, Melanie. “Is Alec a Rapist?—Cultural Connotations of ‘Rape’ and ‘Seduction’—a Reply to Professor John Sutherland.” Feminist Legal Studies 7.3 (1999): 299-316.
Wright, T.R. “Tess is a Victim of Men.” Readings on Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Ed. Bonnie Szumski. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. 128-41.