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The Decline of the Goddess - Nature, Culture, and Women in Thomas Hardy's Fiction (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,679
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The Decline of the Goddess - Nature, Culture, and Women in Thomas Hardy's Fiction (Hardcover, New): Shirley A. Stave

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

Shirley A. Stave

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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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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 1995
First published: June 1995
Authors: Shirley A. Stave
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29566-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN: 0-313-29566-2
Barcode: 9780313295669

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