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Oxford Literature Companions: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Book Description
Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work with the text. Each book also includes a
comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
Table of Contents
- Front Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Plot and Structure
- Plot
- Structure
- Context
- ‘Wessex’ in the mid-1800s: the mechanization of agriculture
- Social class and social mobility
- Working women in the mid-19th century
- Faith and belief in the mid-19th century
- The fallen woman and Victorian society
- Literary context
- Genre
- The tragic genre and fate
- The position of Tess within the tragic genre
- The Bildungsroman
- The Romantic genre
- The gothic novel
- Characterization and Roles
- Main characters
- Minor characters
- Language
- Hardy’s narrative voice
- Hardy’s prose style
- Hardy’s use of dialogue and dialect
- Intertextuality and allusiveness
- Repeated images and motifs
- Themes
- Time
- Faith, doubt, Christianity and paganism
- Perception, observation, blindness and sight
- Tess’s life as a journey – the road as metaphor
- Identity
- Blood and ancestry
- Critical Views
- Social, economic or Marxist perspectives
- Feminist perspectives
- Freudian and other psychoanalytical perspectives
- Skills and Practice
- Exam skills
- Sample questions
- Sample answers
- Glossary
- Imprint
- Back Cover
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