Victorian Women Writers and the Classics : The Feminine of Homer
by
Isobel Hurst
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Classical Presences
ISBN-10
0199541671
ISBN-13
9780199541676
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 24th, 2008
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
350 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 14.10 x 1.50 cms
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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.
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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