I. Texts Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented by Thomas Hardy Hardy's Map of Wessex "Tess's Lament" "On the Western Circuit" II. Contexts John Ruskin, From "On the Nature of Gothic," The Stones of Venice Charles Darwin, From "Natural Selection; or The Survival of the Fittest," On the Origin of Species Mona Alison Caird, "The Morality of Marriage" III. Modern Critical Views Penny Boumelha, "Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form: Tess of the D'Urbervilles" John Goode, "The Offensive Truth: Tess of the D'Urbervilles" Peter Widdowson, "'Moments of Vision': Postmodernizing Tess of the D'Urbervilles"