{"product_id":"9780271072548","title":"After the Fall: The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow","description":"\u003cp\u003eA continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with \u003cem\u003eNew England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSummer\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMy Antonia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBarren Ground\u003c\/em\u003e, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082883219696,"sku":"9780271072548","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780271072548_p0.jpg?v=1763681559","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780271072548","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}