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

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. Whereas Ta...

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Main Author: Catherine Lanone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2019-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/6157