Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism Book

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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    This book examines the highly complex relationship of women writers to Hellenism in the late-nineteenth century, arguing that the proliferation of Greek subjects in women's literature from the middle of the century suggest a collective movement...

  • 0230215599
  • 9780230215597
  • T. D. Olverson
  • 19 November 2009
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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