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Women writers and the dark side of late-Victorian Hellenism / T.D. Olverson

Author
Olverson, T. D. (Tracy D.), 1975-
Published
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description
vii, 237 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents
Introduction: Contested Ground: Gender and Victorian Hellenism(s) -- 1. Taking on the Tradition: Augusta Webster's Feminist Revisionism -- 2. Amy Levy's Greek (Anti-) Heroines -- 3. Worlds without Women: Emily Pfeiffer's Political Hellenism -- 4. Old Greek Wine in New Bottles: Michael Field's Dionysiac Poetics -- 5. Medea's Haunting of the Fin-de-Siecle -- Afterword: Looking Back With an Eye to the Future.
Summary
"This book examines the highly complex relationship of women writers to Hellenism in the late-nineteenth century, arguing that the proliferation of Greek subjects in women's literature from the middle of the century suggest a collective movement into the classical tradition by women writers and scholars rather than comprehensive exclusion from it"--Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
9780230215597 (hardback)
0230215599 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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