Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2009
ISBN13: 9780230215597
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Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions.

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ISBN13:9780230215597
Taal:Engels
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Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Contested Ground: Gender and Victorian Hellenism(s) Taking on the Tradition: Augusta Webster's Feminist Revisionism Amy Levy's Greek Anti-Heroines Worlds Without Women: Emily Pfeiffer's Political Hellenism Old Greek Wine in New Bottles: Michael Field's Dionysiac Poetics Medea's Haunting of the Fin de Siècle Afterword Bibliography Index

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