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.
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?It is a forceful discussion built on contemporary critical precepts and is recommeneded to advanced readers of Hardy, the Victorian novel, and women's of gender studies scholars. Helpful chapter notes. All academic collections.?-Choice
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This book explores the Pagan-Christian conflict underlying Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels, establishing connections with the political and economic structure of Victorian England and focusing primarily on the social construction of gender at this transitional time.
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It has become commonplace to approach the novels of Thomas Hardy with the underlying assumption of a tension between agrarian and industrial ways of life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heath fires, bond with nature, goddess figures, mythic world, women characters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Return of the Native, Gabriel Oak, The Woodlanders, Great Goddess, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Angel Clare, Jude the Obscure, Diggory Venn, Alec D'Urberville, Egdon Heath, Jean Brooks, Under the Greenwood Tree, Great Web, Pair of Blue Eyes, Van Ghent, Anne Mickelson, Christian Cantle, Desperate Remedies, Mary Jacobus, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Victorian England, Widow Edlin, Elizabeth Jane, Henry Knight, John South New!
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It has become commonplace to approach the novels of Thomas Hardy with the underlying assumption of a tension between agrarian and industrial ways of life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heath fires, bond with nature, goddess figures, mythic world, women characters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Return of the Native, Gabriel Oak, The Woodlanders, Great Goddess, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Angel Clare, Jude the Obscure, Diggory Venn, Alec D'Urberville, Egdon Heath, Jean Brooks, Under the Greenwood Tree, Great Web, Pair of Blue Eyes, Van Ghent, Anne Mickelson, Christian Cantle, Desperate Remedies, Mary Jacobus, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Victorian England, Widow Edlin, Elizabeth Jane, Henry Knight, John South New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Return Of The Native (The Works of Thomas Hardy) by Thomas Hardy on 24 pages
- The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy on 24 pages
- Far From the Madding Crowd (Penguin Readers, Level 4) by Hart Hardy on 23 pages
- Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy on 23 pages
- Far From the Madding Crowd (Miniature Gramercy Classics) by Thomas Hardy on 23 pages
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- The Return of the Native (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Return of the Native (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy in Back Matter
- Jude the Obscure (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy in Back Matter
- Hardy and His Readers by T. R. Wright in Back Matter
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