The stronger sex
Subtitle: the fictional women of Lawrence Durrell
By: James R. Nichols
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780838642474
Subjects: Women; Characters and characteristics in literature; Characters; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: biography and fiction; title: Classicism and Durrell's vision: Durrell's free women; title: Dorothy Lamour on the road: paganism and the female body; title: The loneliness of love: Melissa and the sacrificial woman; title: Durrell's failed women: Justine and Livia; title: My lady, my Guenevere: Benedicta and the revolt of Aphrodite; title: Risen angels in Durrell's free fall women: Clea, Constance, and the fortunate fall; title: Jocasta, how you've changed: Lawrence Durrell and the earth mother; title: Narcissism and the female body: Cunegonde in Caesar's vast ghost.