Paradox and Post-Christianity; Hardy's Engagements with Religious Tradition and the Bible

Alec Angel apocalyptic archetype associated Bathsheba Bible biblical biblical allusion biblical and classical Bildungsroman Björk Book of Job Cain Cambridge characterised characters Christ Christian Christminster Clarendon Press Clym Clym's conventional Criticism d'Urbervilles death depiction divine echo Egdon Egdon Heath Elizabeth Fall myth Farfrae female Fiction Fitzpiers Georgics Grace Greenwood Tree Hand of Ethelberta Hardy seems Hardy's novel Hardy's pastoral Henchard heroine Hintock Houndmills human imagery ironical irony John Jude the Obscure Jude's landscape language literary Literature London Macmillan Madding Crowd man-trap marriage Marty Marygreen Mayor of Casterbridge Millgate moral narrative Native nature Oak's Oedipus Old Testament pagan Paradise paradox pastoral world Paul Phillotson phrase Poetry post-Christian prophet quest reader religious repr Return reveals role Satan scriptural sense sexual shepherd social spiritual story Sue's suggests Talbothays Tess Tess's theme Thomas Hardy traditional tragedy Victorian Victorian Literature vision Weatherbury woman women Woodlanders words