女性作家とヴィクトリア朝後期におけるヘレニズムの暗部 Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism

Olverson, T. D.

Palgrave Macmillan（2009/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 237 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230215597
• DDC分類 820.9142

基本説明

Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violen female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian wirters, the author reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions.

Full Description

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.

Contents

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