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CHARLES STUART UNIVERSITY

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Address: http://hsc.csu.edu.au/english/courses/related/rfiction/tess/ [NOW CLOSED]
Contact: Professor Mark McFadden (mmcfadden@csu.edu.au)
Date: 06/21/01

A collection of pages and links related to the study of Tess of the d'Urbervilles--part of an on-line program by Charles Stuart University, New South Wales, Australia, for students who have had no personal or family experience with tertiary study and are seeking a Higher School Certificate (HSC). This Tess of the d'Urbervilles page is divided into three main parts:

Tutorials:
  1. "Coffs Harbour seminar to HSC students,"
  2. "Sample essay 1 - Harvest,"
  3. "Sample essay 2 - Alienation,"
  4. "Sample essay 3 - Seasons and characters."
Exams: "English HSC Exam Papers and Reports 1995-2000."


Resource:

  1. "Discussion about theme in Tess,"
  2. "Photographs from Tess of the d'Urbervilles,"
  3. "The Thomas Hardy Society,"
  4. "The Thomas Hardy page,"
  5. "Thomas Hardy Miscellany."


COMMENT:

"Tutorials" consists primarily of the text of an address (some fifty brief paragraphs) to undergraduates by David B. Cornelius on Tess; it is broken into the following parts: "Introduction," "Setting," "Theme[s]," "Character," and "Hardy and pessimism." The "Sample Essays" are very short essay-examination commentaries by a student from Pymble Lady's College, Sidney. "Resource" consists of links to five other web sites, all of which are described and linked from this site. Two of them--those called "Discussion about theme in Tess" and "The Thomas Hardy Society"--have been given strongly negative evaluations; see Link C 12 "Research Paper--Hardy" and Link A 25 "The Thomas Hardy On-Line Society". The "Exams" are not specifically related to Hardy.

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