An edition of Persephone rises, 1860-1927 (2009)

Persephone rises, 1860-1927

mythography, gender, and the creation of a new spirituality

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An edition of Persephone rises, 1860-1927 (2009)

Persephone rises, 1860-1927

mythography, gender, and the creation of a new spirituality

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English
Pages
171

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Table of Contents

Introduction: gods and mysteries: the revival of paganism and the remaking of mythography through the nineteenth century
A myth appropriated: Greek Persephone to romantic Proserpine
Marriage by capture and the captive wife in Jean Ingelow and Dora Greenwell
Proserpine and pessimism: goddesses of death, life, and language from Swinburne to Wharton
The virgin with the sheaf: fertility, ritual, and imagination in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and My Ántonia
"I am Koré": the modernist underworld and the rising Persephone.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Burlington, VT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/38202114
Library of Congress
PR468.P42 L68 2009, PR145

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
171

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL16989884M
ISBN 13
9780754664550
LCCN
2008029302
OCLC/WorldCat
619832491, 234257144
LibraryThing
8915987
Goodreads
5550576

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL11999672W

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