Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Catherine Lanone

“…Drawing upon Annie Escuret’s epistemocritical method of reading, and on her vision of energy and entropy, this paper considers how, in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, agricultural steam machines begin to colonize the countryside and seem to violate and dislocate the female body. …”
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« Petits poèmes en prose » : la forme poétique dans Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Isabelle Gadoin

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Paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure: The Possibility of Faith and Ethics in a Darwinian World by Marie Panter

“…This article aims at exploring Hardy’s representation of paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, in the light of Hardy’s Darwinism. …”
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles du roman à l’écran : les ambiguïtés du point de vue by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Hardy’s late fiction can definitely be labelled as « modern » in that it both encourages and defeats narrative illusion, particularly in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, which wavers between fleeting moments of identification with the heroine’s point of view (thanks to internal focalisation) and narratorial corrections of these subjective « moments of vision », to take up the title of later poems. …”
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Brumes et brouillards de Bleak House à Heart of Darkness by Audrey Sabathier-Lepetre

“…This article analyses the ways in which air is combined to water to generate mist or fog in three novels of the Victorian period (Bleak House, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Heart of Darkness). In these novels, mist and fog are recurrent and deeply ambivalent tropes. …”
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Thomas Hardy : une écriture paradoxale entre génération et dégradation entropique by Annie Escuret

“…The term « modernism » surfaced in Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) when the narrator complains about the creeping industrial « ache of modernism ». …”
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Entre poésie et fiction : Tess ou l'écriture syncopée de Thomas Hardy by Catherine Lanone

“…This paper addresses a few instances of duplication, focusing mostly on the character of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and on the sense of rupture which Hardy seeks to explore by throwing his reader off-balance. …”
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Le Wessex, espace étranger by Isabelle Gadoin-Luis

“…This paper offers a phenomenological interpretation of two key-scenes at the end of Tess of the d’Urbervilles, when Tess and Angel at Flintcomb-Ash then at Stonehenge are progressively alienated from their living world, barred from any form of communion or intimacy with it, and made to realise the insignificance and powerlessness of any rational subject when faced with the raw, primordial forces of nature. …”
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La voix étranglée de Tess by Annie Ramel

“…In Tess of the d’Urbervilles, the motif of the stain (or spot) has a vocal quality : the vermilion words painted on the wall « shout themselves out », something is shown in the field of the gaze in lieu of the voice. …”
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« Moments of Vision » : l'écriture de Thomas Hardy by Stéphanie Bernard

“…What takes place in scenes like the beginning of The Return of the Native or the end of Tess of the D'Urbervilles is what Hardy called « moments of vision » in one of his poems. …”
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La convergence des destins chez Thomas Hardy by Annie Ramel

“…That may be said of all Hardy’s tragic novels: in Tess of the d’Urbervilles for instance, where Tess, lying on an altar stone at Stonehenge, soon to be surrounded by the police looking for her, is the very last picture that we have of her. …”
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