03715nam 2200637Ia 450 991081596320332120200520144314.01-282-26541-5978661226541994-012-0466-71-4356-1193-410.1163/9789401204668(CKB)1000000000480760(EBL)556785(OCoLC)666983699(SSID)ssj0000194365(PQKBManifestationID)12065847(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194365(PQKBWorkID)10232052(PQKB)10996815(MiAaPQ)EBC556785(OCoLC)166582974(nllekb)BRILL9789401204668(Au-PeEL)EBL556785(CaPaEBR)ebr10380434(EXLCZ)99100000000048076020070831d2007 uy 0engurun####uuuuatxtccrThe lost girls Demeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930 /Andrew Radford1st ed.Amsterdam ;New York Rodopi20071 online resource (357 p.)Textxet,0927-5754 ;53Description based upon print version of record.90-420-2235-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 especially in Butts’s case to recover and restore a forgotten legacy, the myth of matriarchal origins. These novelists are placed in relation not only to one another but also to Victorian archaeologists and especially to Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), one of the first women to distinguish herself in the history of British Classical scholarship and whose anthropological approach to the study of early Greek art and religion both influenced – and became transformed by – the literature. Rather than offering a teleological argument that moves lock-step through the decades, The Lost Girls proposes chapters that detail specific engagements with Demeter-Persephone through which to register distinct literary-cultural shifts in uses of the myth and new insights into the work of particular writers.Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;53.Demeter (Greek deity) in literaturePersephone (Greek deity) in literatureDemeter (Greek deity) in literature.Persephone (Greek deity) in literature.820.992870941Radford Andrew D.1972-884773MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815963203321The lost girls4042514UNINA