Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

The Feminine of Homer

By: Isobel Hurst

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Hardcover | 1 November 2006

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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.

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This is a well-judged and richly informed book... Elaine Jordan, Essays in Criticism ...written in an elegant and engaging style...Hurst's examination is a most welcome addition to the Classical Presences series and to reception studies more generally. Kathleen Riley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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