Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Beer, Gillian. “Descent and Sexual Selection: Women in Narrative.” In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, ed. by Scott Elledge. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1991: 446-451.

Bloom, Harold. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

Casagrande, Peter J. Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Unorthodox Beauty. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.

Laird, J. T. The Shaping of Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

LaValley, Albert J. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Tess of the d’Urbe rvilles. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969.

Mills, Sara, ed. Feminist Readings/Feminists Reading. New York: Prentice Hall, 1996.

Parkinson, Michael H. The Rural Novel: Jeremias Gotthelf, Thomas Hardy, C.F. Ramuz. New York: P. Lang, 1984.

Van Ghent, Dorothy. “On Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” In The English Novel: Form and Function. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

Widdowson, Peter, ed. Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy. Hampshire: Macmillan, 1993.

Wright, Terence. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Hampshire: Macmillan Publishers, 1987.

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