Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism

Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions.

Author: T. Olverson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/19/2009
Pages: 237
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230215597

About the Author
T.D.OLVERSON is a researcher in nineteenth-century literature and culture, and author of essays on women's travel writing, Victorian poetry and nineteenth-century children's literature.