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Eve: A Biography
Eve A Biography
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"The book is lucidly written and beautifully illustrated. It is also well referenced and includes a substantial bibliography. Impressive in its scope and attractive in its accessibility this book is intertextuality in its widest sense and offers valuable insights into the reception history of the ever-fascinating mother of humankind."?Journ... more » "A valuable book, essential reading for anyone interested in tracing the ways in which the story of Eve has influenced Western understandings of gender."
?Shofar "Eve charts the history-long struggle and symbiosis between those two inseparable myths: woman the bringer of death; woman the orgin of life . . . its feminism is cool, witty and unflaunted . . . beautifully illustrated."
--The Times Literary Supplement "Pamela Norris's ability to scan the centuries. . . . proves richly satisfying. From Little Women to the feisty St. Theckla, from mermaids to Thackeray's Becky Sharp, from Mary Magdalen to Tennyson's Maud, Pamela Norris darts, illuminating always the inherited lines of their first mother in the daughters of Eve."
--The Economist ". . . as irreverent and lively as it is learned . . ."
--Literary Review "Pamela Norris's Eve has revelations the whole way through windows on to women's lives through millennia."
--Daily Telegraph Eve: A Biography is the history of Everywoman. Her brief adventure in the Book of Genesis is where the Western idea of woman began, and three thousand years after Eve offered Adam the forbidden fruit, everyone still knows that losing Paradise was Eve's fault. Pamela Norris traces the evolution of Eve's bad reputation, drawing on a rich and diverse tradition of storytelling that embraces myth, folk tale and popular romance, and puts the spotlight firmly on women and their sexuality. From Dinah and Delilah, Pandora and Psyche, to the snaky Lamias and Liliths who haunted nineteenth-century painting and literature, centuries of disobedient women have been linked with Eve, the original bad girl, providing ample ammunition for male fears and fantasies. But Eve's story has also been retold by women, who have found ingenious and often subversive ways to free her from her disreputable past. Stimulating, intriguing and wittily erudite, Eve: A Biography is the entrancing tale of a folk maiden who metamorphoses into a vamp, a mermaid, a bluestocking, a witch, a virgin trapped inside the walls of a fertile garden and finally, perhaps, into a thoroughly modern woman who chews the apple of knowledge with gusto and wouldn't dream of offering Adam a bite.
Author:
"The book is lucidly written and beautifully illustrated. It is also well referenced and includes a substantial bibliography. Impressive in its scope and attractive in its accessibility this book is intertextuality in its widest sense and offers valuable insights into the reception history of the ever-fascinating mother of humankind."?Journ... more » "A valuable book, essential reading for anyone interested in tracing the ways in which the story of Eve has influenced Western understandings of gender."
?Shofar "Eve charts the history-long struggle and symbiosis between those two inseparable myths: woman the bringer of death; woman the orgin of life . . . its feminism is cool, witty and unflaunted . . . beautifully illustrated."
--The Times Literary Supplement "Pamela Norris's ability to scan the centuries. . . . proves richly satisfying. From Little Women to the feisty St. Theckla, from mermaids to Thackeray's Becky Sharp, from Mary Magdalen to Tennyson's Maud, Pamela Norris darts, illuminating always the inherited lines of their first mother in the daughters of Eve."
--The Economist ". . . as irreverent and lively as it is learned . . ."
--Literary Review "Pamela Norris's Eve has revelations the whole way through windows on to women's lives through millennia."
--Daily Telegraph Eve: A Biography is the history of Everywoman. Her brief adventure in the Book of Genesis is where the Western idea of woman began, and three thousand years after Eve offered Adam the forbidden fruit, everyone still knows that losing Paradise was Eve's fault. Pamela Norris traces the evolution of Eve's bad reputation, drawing on a rich and diverse tradition of storytelling that embraces myth, folk tale and popular romance, and puts the spotlight firmly on women and their sexuality. From Dinah and Delilah, Pandora and Psyche, to the snaky Lamias and Liliths who haunted nineteenth-century painting and literature, centuries of disobedient women have been linked with Eve, the original bad girl, providing ample ammunition for male fears and fantasies. But Eve's story has also been retold by women, who have found ingenious and often subversive ways to free her from her disreputable past. Stimulating, intriguing and wittily erudite, Eve: A Biography is the entrancing tale of a folk maiden who metamorphoses into a vamp, a mermaid, a bluestocking, a witch, a virgin trapped inside the walls of a fertile garden and finally, perhaps, into a thoroughly modern woman who chews the apple of knowledge with gusto and wouldn't dream of offering Adam a bite.
ISBN-13: 9780814758120
ISBN-10: 0814758126
Publication Date: 9/1/1999
Pages: 496
Rating: ?
ISBN-10: 0814758126
Publication Date: 9/1/1999
Pages: 496
Rating: ?
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> General
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Historical >> General
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Leaders & Notable People >> Religious
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women
- Religion & Spirituality >> Bible & Other Sacred Texts >> Bible >> Old Testament
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> General
- Nonfiction >> Women's Studies >> Feminist Theory
- Nonfiction >> Women's Studies >> General
- Christian Books & Bibles >> Bible Study & Reference >> Commentaries >> Old Testament
