Heretical Hellenism [electronic resource] : women writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination / Shanyn Fiske.
Material type:
- 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
- 820.9/9287 22
- PR127 .F57 2008eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-257) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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