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Author:

Fiske, Shanyn, 1974-

Title:

Heretical Hellenism : women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination / Shanyn Fiske.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

ix, 262 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Greek influences.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.
Great Britain--Greek influences.--Greek influences.
Greek literature--Appreciation--Great Britain.
Greece--In literature.
Hellenism in literature.
Classicism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

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

Contents:

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

ISBN:

0821418173 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780821418178 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)192056168

LCCN:

2008017867

Locations:

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

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)