Abstract
Arnold Kettle has written that ‘The history and geography of southern England are not just a necessary background to Tess’s story, they are integral to it, entering at every turn and level into the essence of the situation that Hardy describes’.1 I agree with Kettle.
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Rural Society Realistic Trapping Village Life Village Tradition Rural Social Structure
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Notes
- 1.Arnold Kettle, Introduction to Tess of the d’Urbervilles, written in 1966 and reprinted in Twentieth-Century Interpretations of ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’, ed. Albert J. LaValley (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969) p. 17.Google Scholar
- 2.Douglas Brown, Thomas Hardy (London: Longman, 1954) p. 65.Google Scholar
- 3.Arnold Kettle, Introduction to the English Novel, vol. ii (London: Hutchinson, 1953) p. 54.Google Scholar
- 4.Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (London: Chatto & Windus, 1973) p. 255.Google Scholar
- 5.J. Caird, English Agriculture in 1850–1 (London: Frank Cass, 1852) p. 57.Google Scholar
- 6.David Cecil, Hardy the Novelist (London: Constable, 1943) pp. 17–18.Google Scholar
- 8.Merryn Williams, Thomas Hardy and Rural England (London: Macmillan, 1972) p. 177.Google Scholar
- 10.Laurence Lerner, Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge’: Tragedy or Social History (London: Sussex University Press, 1975) pp. 83–4.Google Scholar
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