Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

The Feminine of Homer
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-928351-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hurst, Isobel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Encounters with the ancient world in nineteenth-century literature

- 2: Classical training for the woman writer

- 3: `Unscrupulously epic'

- 4: Classics and the family in the Victorian novel

- 5: Greek heroines and the wrongs of women

- 6: Revising the Victorians

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Isobel Hurst is Tutor in English and Classics at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick.