Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-162) and index.
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