【POD】Tess and the Myth of Janus: A Japanese Professor's Literary Perspective

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[About the Book] Uncovering Janus, the Two-Faced God Hidden Within Tess of the d’Urbervilles Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy’s masterpiece and one of the most celebrated novels in nineteenth-century English literature, tells the tragic story of its heroine, Tess. Yet throughout the novel, there are surprisingly frequent references to gates, doorways, and entrances. Even the names of the two men who shape Tess’s fate-Clare and Alec-form a near-anagram, differing by only a single letter. W…