"The Fleshly Tabernacle with Which Nature Had Endowed Her": Redemption, Regeneration, and Ruination in Tess of the D'urbervilles.
The article focuses on how Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" connects Tess's unsuccessful attempts at redemption and regeneration with Hardy's opposition to Victorian architectural restoration and his belief in the inevitability of decay and ruin. Topics include Tess's efforts to recover bo...
| Publicado en: | Criticism Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 139 - 166 |
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Wayne State University Press
Spring2024
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on how Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" connects Tess's unsuccessful attempts at redemption and regeneration with Hardy's opposition to Victorian architectural restoration and his belief in the inevitability of decay and ruin. Topics include Tess's efforts to recover bodily and moral purity, parallels between human restoration and Gothic architectural restoration, and Hardy's critique of restoration as an ultimately futile response to irreversible loss. |
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