03087nam 2200709 a 450 991097302060332120251117074506.00-8214-4291-0(CKB)2440000000014114(OCoLC)646798005(CaPaEBR)ebrary10276645(SSID)ssj0000484923(PQKBManifestationID)11294013(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484923(PQKBWorkID)10595296(PQKB)10997016(MiAaPQ)EBC3026975(Au-PeEL)EBL3026975(CaPaEBR)ebr10276645(BIP)36026852(BIP)16156211(EXLCZ)99244000000001411420080418d2008 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHeretical Hellenism women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination /Shanyn Fiske1st ed.Athens Ohio University Pressc20081 online resource (272 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8214-1817-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-257) and index.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.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.English literatureGreek influencesEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismPopular literatureGreat BritainHistory and criticismGreek literatureAppreciationGreat BritainHellenism in literatureClassicismGreat BritainHistory19th centuryGreat BritainCivilizationGreek influencesGreeceIn literatureEnglish literatureGreek influences.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Popular literatureHistory and criticism.Greek literatureAppreciationHellenism in literature.ClassicismHistory820.9/9287Fiske Shanyn1974-1866086MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973020603321Heretical Hellenism4473363UNINA