SOURCE: "The Felicity and Infelicity of Marriage in Jude the Obscure," in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 38, No. 2, 1983, pp. 189-213.
In the following essay, Goetz explores elements of Jude the Obscure that form a critique of marriage.
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