The lost girls :: Demeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930 /

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 significan...

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1. Verfasser: Radford, Andrew, 1972-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Schriftenreihe:Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 53.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (356 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-349) and index.
ISBN:9781435611931
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9781282265417
9786612265419
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ISSN:0927-5754 ;

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