Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals theextent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinisterCirce were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction: Contested Ground: Gender and Victorian Hellenism(s) - Taking on the Tradition: Augusta Webster's Feminist Revisionism - Amy Levy's Greek Anti-Heroines - Worlds Without Women: Emily Pfeiffer's Political Hellenism - Old Greek Wine in New Bottles: Michael Field's Dionysiac Poetics - Medea's Haunting of the Fin de Siècle - Afterword - Bibliography- Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21559-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 19/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés