Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sir James George Frazer
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Standard Name: Frazer, Sir James George
Used Form: J. G. Frazer
SJGF
was a late Victorian academic, anthropologist and investigator of aboriginal peoples' religious beliefs and practices. His book The Golden Bough made a huge impact on writers as well as scientists.
Notes she made for this novel include quotations from Sir James Frazer
's The Golden Bough (about male fear of women's power) and from the scientist Metchnikoff
about the disharmony represented by human sexual functions.
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Renault
MR
based her book on the outline from Plutarch
's Life of Theseus. However, the novel also enters into scholarly debates about the origins of Mycenaean culture by portraying the replacement of a matriarchal...
Material Conditions of Writing
Muriel Spark
Again Spark had researched for this novel, which draws on ancient Roman history and Sir James Frazer
's The Golden Bough. Work had been interrupted by her mother's death. The manuscript consisted of small...
Occupation
Jane Ellen Harrison
While highly innovative and thus sometimes controversial, JEH
's work was supported, as well as challenged, by a wide range of scholarly and critical sources. At Cambridge, she collaborated with colleagues including William Ridgeway
,...
Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press, 2000.
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Reception
Laura Riding
Miranda Seymour
(who has published a life of Graves and a novel based on an incident in his life and Riding's) does not believe this story of indebtedness,
Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 191-5.
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and nor does Riding's biographer Friedmann...
Textual Features
Jane Ellen Harrison
Departing from studies of the vegetation spirit undertaken by such scholars as J. G. Frazer
and Wilhelm Mannhardt
, Harrison argues for the significance of the year spirit as the embodiment not of the formal...
Textual Features
Ursula K. Le Guin
The plot of this book is fairly conventional. Its hero is born to poverty and goat-herding on the undeveloped island of Gont. He is named Duny. His siblings are much older, his mother dies early...
Textual Production
Mary Kingsley
As the major influences on her in anthropological theory MK
cites Charles Darwin
, Edward Burnett Tylor
's Primitive Culture, and A. B. Ellis
's The Tshi Speaking, Ewe Speaking, and Yoruba Speaking Peoples...
Timeline
1898: Modern anthropology (based on fieldwork,...
Building item
1898
Modern anthropology (based on fieldwork, not speculation like that of Sir James Frazer
) is held to have begun with the Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Strait, off Queensland.
Henley, Paul. “Fly in the Soup”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2001, pp. 35-7.
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Texts
Frazer, Sir James George. Aftermath: A Supplement to The Golden Bough. Macmillan, 1936.
Frazer, Sir James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion. Macmillan, 1915, 12 vols.