| Description |
1 online resource (356 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Textxet,
0927-5754 ;
53
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Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 53.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-349) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Demeter (Greek deity) -- In literature.
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Demeter (Greek deity) |
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Demeter. |
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Persephone. |
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Persephone (Greek deity) -- In literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Radford, Andrew D., 1972- Lost girls. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007 9789042022355 (OCoLC)166582974 |
| ISBN |
9781435611931 (electronic book) |
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1435611934 (electronic book) |
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9042022353 |
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9789042022355 |
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9042022353 |
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9789042022355 |
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