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The hero of the story is a demonic lover—dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. The heroine—beautiful, and innocent—willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films.
Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; it will interest those concerned with gender role conflicts in literature and with the mutual influence of oral and written texts of folklore and formal literature.
Toni Reed is a lecturer in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. This book was a runner-up for the 1987 Midwest Modern Language Association Book Award.
Publication Date
1988
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
9780813192901
eISBN
9780813150499
Keywords
Demons, Demonology, Evil in literature, Victims in literature
Disciplines
Literature in English, British Isles
Recommended Citation
Reed, Toni, "Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction" (1988). Literature in English, British Isles. 21.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/21
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