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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813631903321

Autore

Fiske Shanyn <1974->

Titolo

Heretical Hellenism [[electronic resource] ] : women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination / / Shanyn Fiske

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8214-4291-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/9287

Soggetti

English literature - Greek influences

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Popular literature - Great Britain - History and criticism

Greek literature - Appreciation - Great Britain

Hellenism in literature

Classicism - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Great Britain Civilization Greek influences

Greece In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Hellenism and heresy -- Victorian Medea: from sensationalism to subjectivity -- Fragments of genius: Charlotte Brontèˆ 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.