Shirley A. Stave

The Decline of the Goddess

Nature, Culture, and Women in Thomas Hardy's Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

This timely book treats Hardy's recurring use of one of the major informing myths of Western culture-that of a collision between a solar god and an earth goddess. Stave uses a chronological examination of Hardy's Wessex novels to highlight the author's evolving consciousness of the connections among patriarchy, Christianity, sexism, and classism. From the gentle affirmation of Far From the Madding Crowd to the grim Jude the Obscure, Stave paints a world in which the goddess figures die out, displaced by messianic gods, and a Pagan worldview gives way to a world devoid of spiritual meaning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780313295669
• ISBN-10: 0313295662
• Artikelnr.: 22169272

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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