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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

By Isobel Hurst

Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

By Isobel Hurst

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
262
Release Date:
2006-11-16
Publication Date:
2006-09-14
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199283516
ISBN13:
9780199283514
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
505 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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