"The book is lucidly written and beautifully illustrated. It is
also well referenced and includes a substantial bibliography.
Impressive in its scope and attractive in its accessibility this
book is intertextuality in its widest sense and offers valuable
insights into the reception history of the ever-fascinating mother
of humankind."--"Journal for the Study of the Old Testament"
"A valuable book, essential reading for anyone interested in
tracing the ways in which the story of Eve has influenced Western
understandings of gender."
--"Shofar"
"Eve charts the history-long struggle and symbiosis between
those two inseparable myths: woman the bringer of death; woman the
orgin of life . . . its feminism is cool, witty and unflaunted . .
. beautifully illustrated."
"--The Times Literary Supplement"
"Pamela Norris's ability to scan the centuries. . . . proves
richly satisfying. From Little Women to the feisty St. Theckla,
from mermaids to Thackeray's Becky Sharp, from Mary Magdalen to
Tennyson's Maud, Pamela Norris darts, illuminating always the
inherited lines of their first mother in the daughters of
Eve."
"--The Economist"
." . . as irreverent and lively as it is learned . . ."
"--Literary Review"
"Pamela Norris's Eve has revelations the whole way through
windows on to women's lives through millennia."
"--Daily Telegraph"
Eve: A Biography is the history of Everywoman. Her brief
adventure in the Book of Genesis is where the Western idea of woman
began, and three thousand years after Eve offered Adam the
forbidden fruit, everyone still knows that losing Paradise was
Eve's fault.
Pamela Norris traces the evolution of Eve's bad reputation,
drawing on arich and diverse tradition of storytelling that
embraces myth, folk tale and popular romance, and puts the
spotlight firmly on women and their sexuality. From Dinah and
Delilah, Pandora and Psyche, to the snaky Lamias and Liliths who
haunted nineteenth-century painting and literature, centuries of
disobedient women have been linked with Eve, the original bad girl,
providing ample ammunition for male fears and fantasies. But Eve's
story has also been retold by women, who have found ingenious and
often subversive ways to free her from her disreputable past.
Stimulating, intriguing and wittily erudite, Eve: A Biography is
the entrancing tale of a folk maiden who metamorphoses into a vamp,
a mermaid, a bluestocking, a witch, a virgin trapped inside the
walls of a fertile garden and finally, perhaps, into a thoroughly
modern woman who chews the apple of knowledge with gusto and
wouldn't dream of offering Adam a bite.
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