Pygmalion and Galatea

This title was published in 2001. Pygmalion and Galatea presents an account of the development of the Pygmalion story from its origins in early Greek myth until the twentieth century. It focuses on the use of the story in nineteenth-century British literature, exploring gender issues, the nature of artistic creativity and the morality of Greek art. Introduction; Beginnings to the nineteenth century; ’Don’t look at J.J. Rousseau’: Pygmalion and the Romantics; Adam’s dream: Post-Romantic renarrations; The Pre-Raphaelite Pygmalion and mid-victorian hellenism; Nineteenth-Century Pygmalion plays: the context of Shaw’s Pygmalion; The twentieth century: towards a conclusion; Appendix 1 The Pygmalion story in dictionaries and handbooks of classical literature; Appendix 2 Bibliography of Pygmalion references.