The myth of Persephone in girls' fantasy literature
By: Holly Virginia Blackford
Series: Children's literature and culture -- 80
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780415895415
Subjects: English Fantasy fiction; Children's stories, English; Children's stories, American; Myth in literature; History and criticism; Girls in literature; American Fantasy fiction; Children's stories; Child psychology in literature; Persephone (Greek deity) in literature
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reaching for the narcissus: Byronic boys, toys, and the plight of Persephone; title: Unearthing the child underworld: the history of Persephone and developmental psychology; title: Toying with Persephone: Herr Drosselmeier and Marie in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King; title: Jo's sensational boy and the gift of Amy's soul in Louisa May Alcott's Little women (1868-1869); title: Lost girls, underworld queens in J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy (1911) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; title: Eleusinian mysteries in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden; title: The Byronic woman: E.B. White's Charlotte's web; title: The riddle of feminine criture in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and The chamber of secrets; title: Divorce and other mothers: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005) and Neil Gaiman's Coraline.