MARC Record from harvard_bibliographic_metadata

LEADER: 04051cam a2200421 a 4500
001 012010013-4
005 20090626155427.0
008 080714s2009 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008029302
020 $a9780754664550 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0754664554 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 0 $aocn234257144
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dBWKUK$dBWK$dCDX$dDLC
043 $ae-uk---$an-us---
050 00 $aPR468.P42$bL68 2009
082 00 $a820.9/38202114$222
100 1 $aLouis, Margot Kathleen,$d1954-2007.
245 10 $aPersephone rises, 1860-1927 :$bmythography, gender, and the creation of a new spirituality /$cMargot K. Louis.
260 $aFarnham, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$cc2009.
300 $axiv, 171 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [139]-156) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : gods and mysteries : the revival of paganism and the remaking of mythography through the nineteenth century -- A myth appropriated : Greek Persephone to Romantic Proserpine -- Marriage by capture and the captive wife in Jean Ingelow and Dora Greenwell -- Proserpine and pessimism : goddesses of death, life, and language from Swinburne to Wharton -- The virgin with the sheaf : fertility, ritual, and imagination in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and My Ántonia -- "I am Koré" : the modernist underworld and the rising Persephone.
520 $aIn the first comprehensive survey of the Persephone myth in English and American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Margot Louis explores the transformation of the goddess to provide not only a basis for understanding how the study of ancient history informed the creation of a new spirituality but for comprehending the deep and bitter tensions surrounding gender that interacted with this process. Beginning with an overview of the most influential ancient texts on Persephone and references to Persephone in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Romantic period writing, Louis shows that the earliest theories of matriarchy and patriarchal marriage emerged in the 1860s alongside the first English poems to explore Persephone's story. As scholars began to focus on the chthonic Mystery cults, and particularly on the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, poets and novelists explored the divisions between mother and daughter occasioned by patriarchal marriage. Issues of fertility and ritual resonate in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Willa Cather's My Antonia, while the first advance of a neo-pagan spirituality, as well as early feminist critiques of male mythography and of the Persephone myth, emerge in Modernist poems and fictions from 1908 to 1927. Informed by the latest research and theoretical work on myth, Margot Louis's fascinating study shows the development of Victorian mythography in a new light; offers original takes on Victorian representations of gender and values; exposes how differently male and female Modernists dealt with issues of myth, ritual, and ancient spirituality; and uncovers how deeply the study of ancient spirituality is entwined with controversies about gender.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPersephone (Greek deity) in literature.
650 0 $aDemeter (Greek deity) in literature.
650 0 $aMyth in literature.
650 0 $aSex role in literature.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
600 00 $aDemeter$c(Greek deity)$xIn literature.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
600 00 $aPersephone$c(Greek deity)$xIn literature.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aLouis, Margot Kathleen, 1954-2007.$tPersephone rises, 1860-1927.$dFarnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009$w(OCoLC)619832491
988 $a20090619
906 $0DLC