The Sappho history / Margaret Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Margaret, 1957-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sappho.

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Sappho--In literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

In" The Sappho History," Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid 18th century to the present day. For women writers in the Romantic period, she symbolized possibility; for the young Tennyson, she was a private ancestor helping him make his own name as a poet. Richly illustrated throughout, "The Sappho History" provides a new view of Western culture from the Romantic period to the Modern.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-302) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0333971701

OCLC:

50198734

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