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Author:

Comet, Noah, 1977-

Title:

Romantic hellenism and women writers / Noah Comet.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xi, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--Greek influences.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Hellenism in literature.
Greece--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: From monumental fragments to fragmented monumentalism -- Hellenism and women's print culture: 'the merit of brevity' -- Lucy Aikin and the evolution of Greece 'through infamy to fame' -- Felicia Hemans and the 'exquisite remains' of modern Greece -- Letitia Landon and the second thoughts of romantic hellenism -- Conclusion: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the reception of romantic women's hellenism.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print

ISBN:

1137304979
9781137304971

OCLC:

(OCoLC)818732930

LCCN:

2013008158

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)