Comet Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-31622-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 167 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Comet, N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: From Monumental Fragments to Fragmented Monumentalism 1. Hellenism and Women's Print Culture: 'The Merit of Brevity.' 2. Lucy Aikin and the Evolution of Greece 'Through Infamy to Fame.' 3. Felicia Hemans and the 'Exquisite Remains' of Modern Greece 4. Letitia Landon and the Second Thoughts of Romantic Hellenism Conclusion: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Reception of Romantic Women's Hellenism Notes Appendices Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noah Comet is Assistant Professor of English and an award-winning teacher at the Ohio State University, USA. His research interests include Romantic poetry and poetics, women writers, and the reception of classical antiquity. His other publications include articles on pedagogy and an online concordance to Keats's poetry.