After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow

by Josephine Donovan

Book Overview

A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century--Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow.

The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these writers' thematics, but interprets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271027258
• ISBN13: 9780271027258
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"