The lost girls : Demeter-Persephone and the literary imagination, 1850-1930 / Andrew Radford.
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...
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007.
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Table of 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.