... urban communities was the growth of available information and mass-media and the changes in attitude that this caused. The massively increased availability of newspapers, books, parliamentary reports, scientific studies and the like, brought about by improvements in transport, technology and manufacturing processes meant that there was more information circulating within society than ever before. A documented increase in literacy also ... novel goes someway to explaining Hardy's choice of subject matter for his narrative. However, as critics have noted, Tess is a transgressive work not o...

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