{"product_id":"after-the-fall-the-demeter-persephone-myth-in-wharton-cather-and-glasgow-9780271027258","title":"After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Josephine Donovan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Feminist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with \u003ci\u003eNew England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these writers' thematics, but interprets the myth in terms of the historical transitions taking place in turn-of-the-century America. Donovan focuses on the changing relationship between mothers and daughters--in particular upon the \"new women's\" rebellion against the traditional women's culture of their nineteenth-century mothers (both literary and literal). An introductory chapter traces the male-supremacist ideologies that formed the intellectual climate in which these women wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReorienting Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow within women's literary traditions produces major reinterpretations of their works, including such masterpieces as \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Antonia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBarren Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615194235031,"sku":"9780271027258","price":4587.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780271027258.webp?v=1775098691","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/after-the-fall-the-demeter-persephone-myth-in-wharton-cather-and-glasgow-9780271027258","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}