SOURCE: "Tess: A Less than Pure Woman Ambivalently Presented," in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 28, No. 3, Fall, 1986, pp. 324-38.
In the following essay, Claridge argues that Thomas Hardy's subversion of Tess's sexual and psychological purity in Tess of the d'Urbervilles leads to that text's aesthetic incoherence.)
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