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Heretical Hellenism women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination /

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Main Author: Fiske, Shanyn, 1974-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.
Subjects:
English literature > Greek influences.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Popular literature > Great Britain > History and criticism.
Greek literature > Appreciation > Great Britain.
Hellenism in literature.
Classicism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Civilization > Greek influences.
Greece > In literature.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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