LEADER 03715nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910815963203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-26541-5 010 $a9786612265419 010 $a94-012-0466-7 010 $a1-4356-1193-4 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401204668 035 $a(CKB)1000000000480760 035 $a(EBL)556785 035 $a(OCoLC)666983699 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000194365 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12065847 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194365 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10232052 035 $a(PQKB)10996815 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556785 035 $a(OCoLC)166582974 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401204668 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556785 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380434 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000480760 100 $a20070831d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun####uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe lost girls $eDemeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930 /$fAndrew Radford 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 225 1 $aTextxet,$x0927-5754 ;$v53 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2235-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 $aThe Lost Girls analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 for whom the myth of Demeter?s loss and eventual recovery of her cherished daughter Kore-Persephone, swept off in violent and catastrophic captivity by Dis, God of the Dead, had both huge personal and aesthetic significance. This book, in addition to scrutinising canonical and less well-known texts by male authors such as Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, also focuses on unjustly neglected women writers ? Mary Webb and Mary Butts ? who utilised occult tropes to relocate themselves culturally, and especially in Butts?s case to recover and restore a forgotten legacy, the myth of matriarchal origins. These novelists are placed in relation not only to one another but also to Victorian archaeologists and especially to Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), one of the first women to distinguish herself in the history of British Classical scholarship and whose anthropological approach to the study of early Greek art and religion both influenced ? and became transformed by ? the literature. Rather than offering a teleological argument that moves lock-step through the decades, The Lost Girls proposes chapters that detail specific engagements with Demeter-Persephone through which to register distinct literary-cultural shifts in uses of the myth and new insights into the work of particular writers. 410 0$aText (Rodopi (Firm)) ;$v53. 606 $aDemeter (Greek deity) in literature 606 $aPersephone (Greek deity) in literature 615 0$aDemeter (Greek deity) in literature. 615 0$aPersephone (Greek deity) in literature. 676 $a820.992870941 700 $aRadford$b Andrew D.$f1972-$0884773 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815963203321 996 $aThe lost girls$94042514 997 $aUNINA