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Title:

American women and classical myths / Gregory A. Staley, editor.

Publisher:

Baylor University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xi, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Classical influences.--Classical influences.
American literature--Greek influences.
American literature--Roman influences.
Mythology, Classical, in literature
Women in literature.
Women--Mythology
Classicism--United States.
United States--Classical influences--Classical influences

Other Authors:

Staley, Gregory Allan

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-272) and index.

Contents:

Examples of classical myth in the poems of Phillis Wheatley / Julian Mason -- Margaret Fuller and her timeless friends / Marie Cleary -- H.D., daughter of Helen : mythology as actuality / Heila Murnaghan -- Those two or three human stories : Willa Cather, classical myth, and the new world epic / Mary R. Ryder -- Edith Hamilton and Greco-Roman mythology / Judith P. Hallett -- Liberating woman : Athena as cultural icon in the United States / Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch -- Victorian Antigone : classicism and women's education in America, 1840-1900 / Caroline Winterer -- The figure of Penelope in twentieth-century poetry by American women / Lillian E. Doherty -- The Amazons : wonder women in America / Gregory A. Staley.

ISBN:

1932792856 (alk. paper)
9781932792850 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)219567424

LCCN:

2008011910

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)