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Heretical Hellenism : women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination / Shanyn Fiske.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fiske, Shanyn, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Greek influences.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Greek literature--Appreciation--Great Britain.
- Greek literature.
- Hellenism in literature.
- Classicism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Classicism.
- Great Britain--Civilization--Greek influences.
- Great Britain.
- Greece--In literature.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Uncovering the various ways that Victorian women acquired knowledge of Greek literature, history and philosophy without formal classical training, this volume argues that women established the foundations of a heretical challenge to traditional assumptions about classical knowledge and women's place in literary history.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Hellenism and heresy
- Victorian Medea: from sensationalism to subjectivity
- Fragments of genius: Charlotte Bronte and the discourse of popular Greek
- Heretical humanism: Romola and Hellenism's distaff legacy
- The Daimon archives: Jane Harrison and the afterlife of dead languages
- Afterword: the First World War and the death of heresy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8214-4291-0
- OCLC:
- 646798005
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