The lost girls: Demeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930
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Main Author: Radford, Andrew D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Rodopi 2007
Series:Text (Rodopi (Firm)) 53
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-349) and index
Excavating the dark half of Hellas -- Divine mother and maid in Victorian poetry -- Hardy's Tess : the making and breaking of a goddess -- 'Gone to Earth' : Mary Webb's doomed Persephone -- E.M. Forster and Demeter's English garden -- Lawrence's underworld -- Salvaging the goddess of Wessex
The Lost Girls analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 for whom the myth of Demeter's loss and eventual recovery of her cherished daughter Kore-Persephone, swept off in violent and catastrophic captivity by Dis, God of the Dead, had both huge personal and aesthetic significance. This book, in addition to scrutinising canonical and less well-known texts by male authors such as Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence, also focuses on unjustly neglected women writers - Mary Webb and Mary Butts - who utilised occult tropes to relocate themselves culturally, and especiall
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (356 pages)
ISBN:1435611934
9042022353
9781435611931
9789042022355

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