The decline of the goddess: nature, culture, and women in Thomas Hardy's fiction

Abstract

In the Beginning: Archetypal Patterns in the Less Well-Known Novels Far From the Madding Crowd: And Nature Saw What She Had Done, and Was Good The of the Native: And Nature Said, 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