After the Fall : The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow /

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A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth cen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Donovan, Josephine, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
Persephone > (Greek deity)
Glasgow, Ellen, > 1873-1945
Demeter > (Greek deity)
Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947.
Demeter > (Greek deity) > In literature.
Persephone > (Greek deity) > In literature.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Characters > Women.
Cather, Willa, > 1873-1947 > Characters > Women.
Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, > 1873-1945 > Characters > Women.
Glasgow, Ellen, > 1873-1945 > Characters > Women.
Women in literature.
Myth in literature.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
Literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Meres et filles dans la litterature.
Mythe dans la litterature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Demeter's Garden Destroyed
  • 2. Nan Prince and the Golden Apples
  • 3. Edith Wharton and the Pomegranate Seed
  • 4. Willa Cather: The Daughter in Exile
  • 5. Ellen Glasgow: Beyond Barren Ground
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Virginia Woolf and Colette
  • Appendix 11: Demeter as Absent Referent
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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