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050 00 $aPR127$b.F57 2008
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100 1 $aFiske, Shanyn,$d1974-
245 10 $aHeretical Hellenism :$bwomen writers, ancient Greece, and the Victorian popular imagination /$cShanyn Fiske.
260 $aAthens :$bOhio University Press,$cc2008.
300 $aix, 262 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-257) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 $a"The prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians' relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination challenges that theory and argues that while the information women received from popular sources was fragmentary and often fostered intellectual insecurities, it was precisely the ineffability of the Greek world refracted through popular sources and reconceived through new fields of study that appealed to women writers' imaginations." "Examining underconsidered sources such as theater history and popular journals, Shanyn Fiske uncovers the many ways that women acquired knowledge of Greek literature, history, and philosophy without formal classical training. Through discussions of women writers such as Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Jane Harrison, Heretical Hellenism demonstrates that women established the foundations of a heretical challenge to traditional humanist assumptions about the uniformity of classical knowledge and about women's place in literary history." --Book Jacket.
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651 0 $aGreece$xIn literature.
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