Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer

Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer
ISBN-10
0191536237
ISBN-13
9780191536236
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2006-09-14
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Author
Isobel Hurst

Description

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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