Essaka Joshua

Pygmalion and Galatea (eBook, ePUB)

The History of a Narrative in English Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This title was published in 2001. Pygmalion and Galatea presents an account of the development of the Pygmalion story from its origins in early Greek myth until the twentieth century. It focuses on the use of the story in nineteenth-century British literature, exploring gender issues, the nature of artistic creativity and the morality of Greek art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351748841
• Artikelnr.: 62552778

Autorenporträt

Essaka Joshua is a Lecturer in the Department of English, School of Humanities, University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Beginnings to the nineteenth century
'Don't look at J.J. Rousseau': Pygmalion and the Romantics
Adam's dream: Post-Romantic renarrations
The Pre-Raphaelite Pygmalion and mid-victorian hellenism
Nineteenth-Century Pygmalion plays: the context of Shaw's Pygmalion
The twentieth century: towards a conclusion
Appendix 1 The Pygmalion story in dictionaries and handbooks of classical literature
Appendix 2 Bibliography of Pygmalion references.