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by Isobel Hurst


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Isobel Hurst examines the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged. The restrictions which applied to women's access to classical learning liberated them from the repressive and sometimes alienating effects of a traditional classical education. Women writers' reworkings of classical texts serve a variety of purposes: to validate women's claims to authorship, to demand access to education, to highlight feminist issues through the heroines of ancient tragedy, to repudiate the warrior ethos of ancient epic.

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  • Title Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer
  • Author Isobel Hurst
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, 2008. 272p. Paperback. Series: Classical Presences. Both scholars and more general readers will find much interest in Hurst'
  • Date 2008-06-15
  • ISBN 9780199541676 / 0199541671
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.59 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.50 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.992

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Isobel Hurst is a Lecturer in English and Classics at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick.
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