The Lost Girls
Subtitle: Demeter-Persephone and the Literary Imagination, 1850-1930. (Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature) (Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: May 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9789042022355
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hellenic languages; British Isles; Ancient and Classical; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature & Fiction / Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism : Ancient and Classical
Description: 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.