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Introduction: Reaching for the narcissus: Byronic boys, toys, and the plight of Persephone
Unearthing the child underworld: the history of Persephone and developmental psychology
Toying with Persephone: Herr Drosselmeier and Marie in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King
Jo's sensational boy and the gift of Amy's soul in Louisa May Alcott's Little women (1868-1869)
Lost girls, underworld queens in J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy (1911) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Eleusinian mysteries in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden
The Byronic woman: E.B. White's Charlotte's web
The riddle of feminine criture in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and The chamber of secrets
Divorce and other mothers: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005) and Neil Gaiman's Coraline.
Unearthing the child underworld: the history of Persephone and developmental psychology
Toying with Persephone: Herr Drosselmeier and Marie in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King
Jo's sensational boy and the gift of Amy's soul in Louisa May Alcott's Little women (1868-1869)
Lost girls, underworld queens in J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy (1911) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Eleusinian mysteries in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden
The Byronic woman: E.B. White's Charlotte's web
The riddle of feminine criture in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and The chamber of secrets
Divorce and other mothers: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005) and Neil Gaiman's Coraline.