The Decline of the Goddess - Nature, Culture, and Women in Thomas Hardy's Fiction

List of contents

In the Beginning: Archetypal Patterns in the Less Well-Known Novels
Far From the Madding Crowd: And Nature Saw What She Had Done, and It Was Good
The Return of the Native: And Nature Said, "You Are Dust, and to Dust You Shall Return"
The Woodlanders: And Nature Said, "It is Finished"
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: And Nature Became Flesh, and Dwelt Among Us
Jude the Obscure: There Was Darkness Over All the Land
Works Cited
Index

About the author

SHIRLEY A. STAVE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Center-Waukesha County.

Product details

• Authors: Shirley A. Stave, Stave Shirley A.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.1995
• EAN: 9780313295669
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29566-9
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, The Arts: World Literature