Ladies'' Greek - Victorian Translations of Tragedy

Zusatztext "Prins’ archival analysis unpicks such conflicting perceptions of increased access to women’s education. Engrossing and accessible, Ladies’ Greek reveals very different (self-)portraits of female classicists and paves the way for further studies of women’s encounters with classical antiquity." ---Rachel Bryant Davies, Journal of Hellenic Studies ??????? Informationen zum Autor Yopie Prins is the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan and the author of Victorian Sappho (Princeton). Zusammenfassung In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken? In

Product details

• Authors: Yopie Prins, Prins Yopie
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780691141886
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14188-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval