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The Connell Guide To Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Ubervilles (Paperback)
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The Connell Guide To Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Ubervilles (Paperback)
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Loot Price R268
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Few novels have caused more of a stir than Tess of the
d'Urbervilles. In England, the Duchess of Abercorn stated that she
divided her dinner-guests according to their view of Tess. If they
deemed her "a little harlot", she put them in one group; if they
said "Poor wronged innocent!", she put them in another. It is a
telling illustration of the novel's word-of-mouth success. The
Daily News wittily claimed that "pessimism (we had almost said
Tessimism) is popular and fashionable". Fan-mail arrived: Hardy
said that his mail from readers even included confessional letters
from various wives who, like Tess, had gained premarital sexual
experience but, unlike her, had not told their husbands of it.
Hardy's fame was now so great that he was a frequent guest at
fashionable dinner parties. In 1892 he recorded that Tess's fame
had spread round the world and that translations were multiplying,
"its publication in Russia exciting great interest". Controversy
generated publicity. Publicity generated prosperity. Sales of Tess
far surpassed those of any of Hardy's previous works, and between
1900 and 1930 was reprinted "some forty times in England alone". In
addition to making Hardy famous and rich, the scandalous Tess
attracted, and has continued to attract, an extraordinary range of
critical opinion. Victorian reviewers, humanists, neo-Marxists,
deconstructionists, cultural materialists, new historicists:
everyone has had something to say about the novel. This book,
drawing on the best of these critics, shows why, for all its
faults, it has such power, and explains the angry and
uncompromising vision of the world contained within its pages.
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