Victorian Women Writers and the Classics - The Feminine of Homer

Zusatztext the book presents a fascinating study of women's education and women's writing in the 19th century, which should lead to a new appreciation of these authors' achievements and literary output. Informationen zum Autor Isobel Hurst is a Lecturer in English and Classics at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome. The restrictions which applied to women's learning liberated them from the dullness of a traditional classical education, allowing them to respond imaginatively to classical texts using modern forms such as the novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Encounters with the ancient world in nineteenth-century literature 2: Classical training for the woman writer 3: `Unscrupulously epic' 4: Classics and the family in the Victorian novel 5: Greek heroines and the wrongs of women 6: Revising the Victorians Conclusion

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• Authors: Isobel Hurst, Isobel (Lecturer in English and Classics Hurst, Isobel (Tutor in English and Classics Hurst, Hurst Isobel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2008
• EAN: 9780199541676
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954167-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Classical Presences; Classical Presences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity