Editing Pluto (mythology) (section)

=== Modern literature ===
After the Renaissance, literary interest in the abduction myth waned until the revival of classical myth among the [[Romanticism|Romantics]]. The work of mythographers such as [[J.G. Frazer]] and [[Jane Ellen Harrison]] helped inspire the recasting of myths in modern terms by [[Victorian literature|Victorian]] and [[Modernism|Modernist]] writers. In ''[[Tess of the d'Urbervilles]]'' (1891), [[Thomas Hardy]] portrays Alec d'Urberville as "a grotesque parody of Pluto/Dis" exemplifying the late-[[Victorian morality|Victorian culture]] of [[patriarchy|male domination]], in which women were consigned to "an endless breaking ... on the wheel of biological reproduction."<ref>Radford, ''The Lost Girls'', pp. 85, 98, 114, citing Chelser, ''Women and Madness'', pp. 240, 266.</ref> A similar figure is found in ''[[The Lost Girl]]'' (1920) by [[D.H. Lawrence]], where the character Ciccio<ref>Perhaps a play on the Italian verb ''chioccia'' used by Dante to describe Pluto's manner of speaking in ''Inferno'', Canto VII, line 2.</ref> acts as Pluto to Alvina's Persephone, "the deathly-lost bride ... paradoxically obliterated and vitalised at the same time by contact with Pluto/Dis" in "a prelude to the grand design of rebirth." The darkness of Pluto is both a source of regeneration, and of "merciless annihilation."<ref>Radford, ''The Lost Girls'', pp. 247, 252, 254, ''et passim''.</ref> Lawrence takes up the theme elsewhere in his work; in ''The First Lady Chatterley'' (1926, an early version of ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover]]''), Connie Chatterley sees herself as a Persephone and declares "she'd rather be married to Pluto than Plato," casting her earthy gamekeeper lover as the former and her philosophy-spouting husband as the latter.<ref>Radford, ''The Lost Girls'', p. 254.</ref>

In [[Rick Riordan]]'s [[young adult literature|young adult]] fantasy series ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]'', the character [[Hazel Levesque]] is the daughter of Pluto, god of riches. She is one of seven characters with a parent from classical mythology.<ref>[[Rick Riordan]], ''The Son of Neptune'' (Disney-Hyperion Books, 2011), p. 111 (vol. 2 of ''The Heroes of Olympus'' series).</ref>