Women creating classics : a retrospective / edited by Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hauser, Emily (Fiction writer), editor.

Taylor, Helena, 1985- editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--Appreciation.

Classical literature.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

"From Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles (2012) to Natalie Haynes' A Thousand Ships (2019), there has been a huge rise in women's literary receptions of classics in recent years. This first volume in a two-volume set explores the different ways that woman have retold and responded to classics, as well as how these responses might resist or unpack the tensions inherent in notions of gender, race, canonicity, class and cultural heritage. Looking at extraordinary women writers such as Sappho, Lucrezia Marinella and Virginia Woolf to Toni Morrison, Roz Kaveney and Zadie Smith, this volumes demonstrates centrality of women's creations in the world of classics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor

Women creating history / Ian Plant

Classical credentials : women's intellectual and sexual licence in sixteenth-century France / Emma Herdman

Lucrezia Marinella and ancient rhetoric : a woman's approach to eloquence, persuasion, and metaphor in the late Italian Renaissance / Francesca D'Alessandro Behr

'All the allurements of beauty and eloquence' : Aspasia of Miletus and the intellectual woman in the nineteenth century / Isobel Hurst

A night in Ancient Rome. Renée Vivien's scholarly and literary recreation of the cult of Bona Dea / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

Sofiia Parnok's Sapphic cycle Roses of Pieria : translation and commentary / Georgina Barker

'Rebels against the tyranny of men' : women performing Greek comedy in early twentieth-century Britain / Mara Gold

'Saved with ablatives and declensions in the toilet stall' : classical learning and the poetry of Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) / Judith Hallett

'To read, to see, to spin, and to turn' : reintroducing Barbara KoÌ hler's Elektras / Lena Grimm

How to be the best : Madeline Miller's Patroclus / Jessica Lawrence

Voices of recovery in Josephine Balmer's The paths of survival / Sheila Murnaghan

Wrongful conviction : Odyssean possibilities in Tayari Jones' An American marriage / Justine McConnell

Animating disability arts and Ovidian Metamorphosis in Kinetic Light's DESCENT / Amanda Kubic

Passim clouds : Helen, Marilyn and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy / Eugenia Nicolaci

Eating the classics : culinary rewritings of classical myths in poems by Lena Yau / Katie Brown

The Ovidian influence on Zadie Smith / Tracey Walters

A contemporary Medea : Alice Diop's St Omer (2022 / Fiona Cox.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350444409

OCLC:

1493514149