Psyche and Pygmalion: The Heart’s Desires Revised in Louisa May Alcott’s “A Marble Woman”
Taking my cue from Hans Blumenberg’s notion of the “work on myth,” according to which myth is always in the process of revision, this article explores Alcott’s reconfiguration of the Psyche and Pygmalion myths in her novella “A Marble Woman” in conjunction with the nineteenth-century context of wome...
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European Association for American Studies
2022-10-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/18739 |