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Hardy's 'Tess' and "The Photograph": images to die for. (Thomas Hardy)

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From: Criticism
Date: 19930922
Author:Grossman, Julie

Thomas Hardy's novel 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and poem 'The Photograph' make a link between society's oppression of women and that of critics toward novel writers. His relationship with Tess is one of a fellow sufferer and so he tries to protect her from the condemnation of the public eye as a way of showing his power to overcome the oppression of his critics. Hardy sees women as inappropriately co-opted to suit the public's need to project nostalgia and sympathy, making male readers and publishers tainted by their participation in the stereotyping of women and female sexuality.

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