The Sleuth and the Goddess: Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite in Women's Detective Fiction / Edition 1

by Susan Rowland

Overview

Rowland presents a detailed exploration of how the archetypes of ancient goddesses Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite breathe into and shape female-authored detective fiction. Representing aspects of characterisation not bound by gender, the book examines how these archetypes emerge in themes like the home and hearth, hunting, survival and desire. Rowland assesses numerous examples from a range of works, providing a clear illustration of each archetype and illuminating aspects of femininity, psyche and being. This uniquely interdisciplinary work of literary analysis sheds light on the popularity and underlying mystique of the genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367461072
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/18/2019
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susan Rowland, PhD, is Chair of the M.A. in Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. Author of many books on Jung, the feminine, literature, and literary theory, her recent work includes C. G. Jung in the Humanities: Taking the Soul’s Path (2010) and The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity, and Jung (2012). She lives in California with her husband, the digital literary artist and poet Joel Weishaus.

Table of Contents

Dedication vii

Acknowledgements ix

Chapter 1 Introduction: Mythical Knowing and Detective Fiction 1

Chapter 2 The Goddesses for Women Writers: Gendering the Genre 29

Chapter 3 Hestia: Detecting Hearth and Home 59

Chapter 4 Hunting with Artemis 93

Chapter 5 Athena's Justice 127

Chapter 6 The Mysteries of Aphrodite 161

Chapter 7 The Nature of the Twenty-First Century: The Sleuth and the Goddess After 9/11 193

Notes 225

Subject Index 247

Index of Works Cited 253

Authors Index 257

Subject Index 259