Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer

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.


Author: Isobel Hurst
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/15/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780199541676

About the Author

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

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