Victorian Women Writers and the Classics : The Feminine of Homer Paperback / softback
by Isobel (Lecturer in English and Classics, Universities of Oxford and Warwick) Hurst
Part of the Classical Presences series
Paperback / softback
Description
Isobel Hurst examines the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged.
The restrictions which applied to women's access to classical learning liberated them from the repressive and sometimes alienating effects of a traditional classical education.
Women writers' reworkings of classical texts serve a variety of purposes: to validate women's claims to authorship, to demand access to education, to highlight feminist issues through the heroines of ancient tragedy, to repudiate the warrior ethos of ancient epic.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:24/04/2008
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- ISBN:9780199541676
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:24/04/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199541676
