The lost girls : Demeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930 / / Andrew Radford.
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. T...
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| Superior document: | Textxet, 53 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 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
- Afterword
- Select Bibliography
- Index.