Persephone rises, 1860-1927: mythography, gender, and the creation of a new spirituality

Abstract

Contents: Foreword Preface Introduction: gods and mysteries: the revival of paganism and the remaking of mythography through the 19th 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 Antonia 'I am KorA(c)': the modernist underworld and the rising Persephone Appendices Index.