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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154587103321

Autore

Louis Margot Kathleen <1954-2007., >

Titolo

Persephone rises, 1860-1927 : mythography, gender, and the creation of a new spirituality / / Margot K. Louis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-91201-1

1-315-24709-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 pages)

Disciplina

820.938202114

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Myth in literature

Sex role in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. A myth appropriated : Greek Persephone to romantic proserpine -- 2. Marriage by capture and the captive wife in Jean Ingelow and Dora Greenwell -- 3. Proserpine and pessimism : goddesses of death, life, and language from Swinburne to Wharton -- 4. The virgin with the sheaf : fertility, ritual, and imagination in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and My Antonia -- 5. "I am Kore" : the modernist underworld and the rising Persephone.