Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer (Classical Presences) |
| Author: Isobel Hurst
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0199541671
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780199541676
ASIN: 0199541671
Publication Date: June 15, 2008
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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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