{"product_id":"the-lost-girls-demeter-persephone-and-the-literary-imagination-1850-1930-textxet-studies-in-comparative-literature-53","title":"The Lost Girls: Demeter-Persephone and the Literary Imagination, 1850-1930 (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 53)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Lost Girls: Demeter-Persephone and the Literary Imagination, 1850-1930 (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 53) (Paperback, 356 pages) – Brill, 2007. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n 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 especially in Butts’s case to recover and restore a forgotten legacy, the myth of matriarchal origins. These novelists are placed in relation not only to one another but also to Victorian archaeologists and especially to Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928), one of the first women to distinguish herself in the history of British Classical scholarship and whose anthropological approach to the study of early Greek art and religion both influenced – and became transformed by – the literature. Rather than offering a teleological argument that moves lock-step through the decades, The Lost Girls proposes chapters that detail specific engagements with Demeter-Persephone through which to register distinct literary-cultural shifts in uses of the myth and new insights into the work of particular writers.  ","brand":"Andrew Radford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46069075280106,"sku":"9789042022355","price":141.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/71HZjdgnXFL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781200508","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/the-lost-girls-demeter-persephone-and-the-literary-imagination-1850-1930-textxet-studies-in-comparative-literature-53","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}