| Description |
1 online resource (356 pages) |
| Series |
Textxet, 0927-5754 ; 53 |
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Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 53.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-349) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Demeter (Greek deity) -- In literature
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| SUBJECT |
Demeter (Greek deity) fast |
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Persephone (Greek deity) fast |
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Demeter. swd |
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Persephone. swd |
| Subject |
Persephone (Greek deity) in literature
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RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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Literature
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Raub der Persephone
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Beeinflussung
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Schriftsteller
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Großbritannien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435611931 |
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1435611934 |
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9042022353 |
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9789042022355 |
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1282265415 |
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9781282265417 |
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9786612265419 |
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6612265418 |
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9401204667 |
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9789401204668 |
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