Persephone rises, 1860-1927
Subtitle: mythography, gender, and the creation of a new spirituality
By: by Margot K. Louis.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company; Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780754664550
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Persephone (Greek deity) in literature; Demeter (Greek deity) in literature; Myth in literature; Gender in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: gods and mysteries: the revival of paganism and the remaking of mythography through the nineteenth century; title: A myth appropriated: Greek Persephone to romantic Proserpine; title: Marriage by capture and the captive wife in Jean Ingelow and Dora Greenwell; title: Proserpine and pessimism: goddesses of death, life, and language from Swinburne to Wharton; title: The virgin with the sheaf: fertility, ritual, and imagination in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and My Ántonia; title: "I am Koré": the modernist underworld and the rising Persephone.