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The lost girls : Demeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930 /
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 significan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
53. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (356 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-349) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435611931 1435611934 9042022353 9789042022355 1282265415 9781282265417 9786612265419 6612265418 9401204667 9789401204668 |
| ISSN: | 0927-5754 ; |