Part 1. Interpretations. Introduction to Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Arnold Kettle.
The novel as moral protest: Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Ian Gregor.
On Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Dorothy Van Ghent.
Let the day perish / Irving Howe.
Tess and Alec as aristocrats / D. H. Lawrence.
Tess, nature, and the voices of Hardy / David Lodge.
"The ache of modernism" in Hardy's later novels / David J. DeLaura.
Douglas Brown: Hardy and the art of the ballad.
Irving Howe: Hardy's use of folk material.
Benjamin Sankey: character portrayal in Tess.
Ellen Moers: Tess as cultural stereotype. Albert Guerard: the originality of Tess.
Edmund Blunden: Hardy talks about Tess.
Douglas Brown: social and individual fate in Tess.
Florence Emily Hardy: from The life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928.
