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Maiden No More: Rape Culture in Tess of the D'urbervilles by 100indecisions
Fandoms: Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
15 Mar 2013
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Issues of coercion and sexual consent are at the forefront of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, and the novel itself does not seem to present a solid conclusion on what exactly happened between Tess and Alec on the night that started her supposedly inevitable decline. Approaching the text from the viewpoint of modern feminist criticism and ideas about rape culture allows insights into Tess’s story that might not have been available to Hardy or his readers. I wrote this paper for a graduate class a few years ago.
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