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Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism

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  1. T. D. Olverson
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Contested Ground: Gender and Victorian Hellenism(s)

    • T. D. Olverson
    Pages 1-26

  3. Taking on the Tradition: Augusta Webster’s Feminist Revisionism

    • T. D. Olverson
    Pages 27-53

  4. Amy Levy’s Greek (Anti-) Heroines

    • T. D. Olverson
    Pages 54-82

  5. Worlds without Women: Emily Pfeiffer’s Political Hellenism

    • T. D. Olverson
    Pages 83-110

  6. Old Greek Wine in New Bottles: Michael Field’s Dionysiac Poetics

    • T. D. Olverson
    Pages 111-144

  7. Medea’s Haunting of the Fin-de-Siècle

    • T. D. Olverson
    Pages 145-170

  8. Afterword: Looking Back With an Eye to the Future

    • T. D. Olverson
    Pages 171-174

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 175-237
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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.

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'...this book is an important reminder of how valuable fin de siècle women found the violent Greek women and goddesses who burst onto the Attic stage, insisting upon their own point of view.' -Review of English Studies

About the author

T.D.OLVERSON is a researcher in nineteenth-century literature and culture, and author of essays on women's travel writing, Victorian poetry and nineteenth-century children's literature.

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