pt. 1. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: the complete text. Introduction: Biographical and historical contexts ; The complete text.

pt. 2. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: a case study in contemporary criticism. A critical history of Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; The new historicism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What is new historicism? ; The new historicism: a selected bibliography ; A new historicist perspective: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Hardy's anthropology of the novel / Catherine Gallagher ; Feminist and gender criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What are feminist and gender criticism? ; Feminist and gender criticism: a selected bibliography ; A feminist and gender perspective; Tess and the subject of sexual violence reading, rape, seduction / Ellen Rooney ; Deconstruction and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What is deconstruction? ; Deconstruction: a selected bibliography ; A deconstructive perspective: Echoic language, uncertainty, and freedom in Tess of the d'Urbervilles / John Paul Riquelme ; Reader-response criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What is reader-response criticism? ; Reader-response criticism: a selected bibliography ; A reader-response perspective: "Driven well home to the reader's heart": Tess's implicated audience / Garrett Stewart ; Cultural criticism and Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; What is cultural criticism? ; Cultural criticism: a selected bibliography ; A cultural perspective: The same and the different: standards and standardization in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Jennifer Wicke.

Glossary of critical and theoretical terms.