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The fatal hero : Diana, deity of the moon, as an archetype of the modern hero in English literature

Author: Gil Harootunian
Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, 1996.
Series: Writing about women, vol. 21.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The Fatal Hero explores the genesis of a dynamic new female hero in English literature. With imaginative and forceful arguments, it investigates the radical revision of the figure of Diana as an ideal model for the heroic woman. This ground-breaking analysis opens new vistas on the novels of Charlotte Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Henry James, George Eliot, and Edith Wharton. This study transforms the way
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Named Person: Charlotte Brontë; James Joyce; Henry James; Edith Wharton; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Diane (divinité romaine) dans la littérature.; Diana.
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gil Harootunian
ISBN: 0820430250 9780820430256 0820440833 9780820440835
OCLC Number: 33048115
Description: 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Jane Eyre: The Creative Quest of the Modern Hero --
2. Hester Prynne: The American Transformation --
3. Molly Bloom: The Hero of Comedy --
4. Isabel Archer: The Hero of Tragedy --
5. Gwendolen Harleth: The Splendid, Sad-Hearted Hero --
6. Lily Bart: The Creative Marriage of the Diana-Hero.
Series Title: Writing about women, vol. 21.
Responsibility: Gil Haroian-Guerin.

Abstract:

The Fatal Hero explores the genesis of a dynamic new female hero in English literature. With imaginative and forceful arguments, it investigates the radical revision of the figure of Diana as an ideal model for the heroic woman. This ground-breaking analysis opens new vistas on the novels of Charlotte Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce, Henry James, George Eliot, and Edith Wharton. This study transforms the way we see modern literature, its language and images, and its themes and heroic characters.

The Fatal Hero demonstrates a hitherto unidentified but profound nexus between women's studies and modern literature.

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