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Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late Victorian Hellenism
Tracy Olverson
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Description for Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late Victorian Hellenism
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230215597
SKU
V9780230215597
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About Tracy Olverson
T.D.OLVERSON is a researcher in nineteenth-century literature and culture, and author of essays on women's travel writing, Victorian poetry and nineteenth-century children's literature.
Reviews for Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late Victorian Hellenism
'...this book is an important reminder of how valuable fin de siècle women found the violent Greek women and goddesses who burst onto the Attic stage, insisting upon their own point of view.' -Review of English Studies