Manliness and the Myth of Hercules in Charlotte M. Yonge’s My Young Alcides

Autor:	C. E. Schultze
Rok vydání:	1999
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Literature Alcides History Virtue biology Allegory business.industry General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Mythology biology.organism_classification Referent The arts Religious experience HERO Classics business media_common
Zdroj:	International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 5:383-414
ISSN:	1874-6292 1073-0508
DOI:	10.1007/bf02687694
Popis:	Charlotte Yonge’s novelMy Young Alcides (1875) transposes the myth of Hercules into a setting of English country town life, c. 1858. The story of the spiritual development of a very masculine hero is recounted through characters and incidents which closely parallel those of the myth. Two-level reading both identifies the mythical referent, and interprets it in terms of the Christian struggle. Though Yonge did not regard the book as an allegory, it incorporates allgegorising elements into the realistic novel. There are many similarities withThe Heir of Redclyffe (1853): in both works, use of a literary or mythical paradigm highlights crucial episodes while maintaining the Tractarian attitude of reserve towards religious experience; heroic and chivalrous Christian virtue is manifested in every-day life; and a dominant contemporary conception of manliness is renegotiated by showing male heroes displaying virtues usually perceived as feminine and identifying these as universally and appropriately Christian.
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