Premium Content Merely Mistaken: Polar Morals in Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By A. Arwen Taylor - November 06, 2001
"There is, at this time, no general woman, no one typical woman . . ." Helen Cixous (876)
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles is, in its way, revolutionarily feminist. Unusual for its time in its address of premarital sexuality and unwed motherhood (Riquelme 12), Tess is even more remarkable in its attack on the double standard of sex roles…
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