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.
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