Gendering classicism : the ancient world in twentieth-century women's historical fiction / Ruth Hobe...
Gendering classicism : the ancient world in twentieth-century women's historical fiction / Ruth Hobe...
Gendering classicism : the ancient world in twentieth-century women's historical fiction / Ruth Hoberman.
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Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.
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N823.0810992/1
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English
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Physical content
x, 199 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Reading History / Resisting History -- Ch. 2. Greece, Gender, and The Golden Bough -- Ch. 3. History, Ritual, and Gender in Naomi Mitchison's Greece -- Ch. 4. Mana and Narrative in Mary Butts's Greece -- Ch. 5. Cressida's Complexity: Laura Riding Unwrites the White Goddess -- Ch. 6. Masquing...
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Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
Gendering Classicism explores the intersection of feminism, historical fiction, and modernism through the work of six writers, all of whom wrote historical novels set in ancient Greece or Rome: Naomi Mitchison, Mary Butts, Laura Riding, Phyllis Bentley, Bryher, and Mary Renault. As women gained access to higher education in the late nineteenth cent...
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Gendering classicism : the ancient world in twentieth-century women's historical fiction / Ruth Hoberman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-191) and index.
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c1997.
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N823.0810992/1
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74VvP863yWQy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvP863yWQy
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0791433366 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791433355 (alk. paper)
0791433358 (alk. paper)
9780791433362 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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823.081099287
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991005669339702626
