Demeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Radford, Andrew
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER54 2007
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, mythen, godinnen, occultisme, vrouwbeelden, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1850-1899, 1900-1949, antieke oudheid
- Description
- 'The lost girl' analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 and the (shifting) influence and role of the Persephone myth.. In this myth Demeter sacrificed her daughter Kore-Persephone to the God of the Dead. 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 focusses on unjustly neglected women writers - Mary Webb and Mary Butts. The texts are also placed in relation to Victorian archaeologists, especially Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), and their influence on interpretation of Hellenist myth.