Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Chapters 25-30

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🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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As we draw near to the middle of Thomas Hardy’s great tragic novel, join Karen and Heidi (who are holding down the fort while David is sick) as they discuss Angel’s background and family life, Tess’s passivity, Hardy’s perspective on women, and the novel’s first glimpse into Angel’s underlying hypocrisy. Thanks for listening and for supporting Close Reads!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reeds. I'm Heidi White. I'm Karen Swallow Pryor, and we are here to discuss
0:13.1	Tess of the Derbervilles. Let me say that again. That's really hard to say, actually.
0:19.0	Tess of the Derbervilles, phase four, all the way through chapter 30.
0:26.3	So if you're following along, that's until page 331.
0:32.6	So if you have noticed, I am not David Kern. Our fearless leader has been struck down by an
0:42.2	illness. He is absent today. He's sick. He's not feeling very well. So Karen and I are going to talk
0:49.3	about this section of wooing, I guess, is what it is. A very complicated wooing. So you'll get our
0:59.0	perspective on that. So before we begin, Karen, how are you? So far, so good. The allergies are
1:06.3	kind of kicking my butt, but yeah. Yes, I'm here. So you have transitioned from the academic year
1:15.6	into the summer. How does that change your life year by year? What is your summer like?
1:21.4	Well, this year is a little bit different because I actually had the first sabbatical of my life,
1:26.8	the spring semester.
1:28.8	So I did teach a course. That's sort of separate, but I've been working on my current book all
1:35.6	semester. And so for me, I'm just like sliding. I'm just the same same thing. So I'll try to
1:41.2	work on this book and it's due at the end of the summer.
1:51.8	Okay. So you are, you are right in thick of it. Right. Exactly. How do you, I'm going to throw a little important question in here. That is, that's something that I'm wrestling through. And I'm,
1:57.0	our listeners will probably be interested in this too. How do you manage writing and teaching?
2:03.3	Are you like a one at a time kind of author and teacher and professor or can you kind of balance both of those things?
2:13.0	It's, well, whether I can or not is a separate question of whether I must or not.
2:18.1	That's a good point.
2:18.7	It is hard.
2:21.3	But most of what I write draws from what I teach.
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