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ISBN: 9780691141886 0691141886 9780691141893 0691141894 1400885744 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,
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"In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken? In the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, they wrote "some Greek upon the margin—lady's Greek, without the accents." Yet in the margins of classical scholarship they discovered other ways of knowing, and not knowing, Greek. Mediating between professional philology and the popularization of classics, these passionate amateurs became an important medium for classical transmission. Combining archival research on the entry of women into Greek studies in Victorian England and America with a literary interest in their translations of Greek tragedy, Prins demonstrates how women turned to this genre to perform a passion for ancient Greek, full of eros and pathos. She focuses on five tragedies—Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Electra, Hippolytus, and The Bacchae—to analyze a wide range of translational practices by women and to explore the ongoing legacy of Ladies' Greek. Key figures in this story include Barrett Browning and Virginia Woolf, Janet Case and Jane Harrison, Edith Hamilton and Eva Palmer, and A. Mary F. Robinson and H.D."--Publisher's description.
English drama --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Women and literature --- Greek influences --- Translations into English --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History --- Women and literature. --- Greek influences. --- History and criticism. --- Translations into English. --- History. --- To 1500. --- Greece. --- Greece --- Historiography. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Literature --- Greek drama --- English literature --- English drama - Greek influences --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - Translations into English - History and criticism --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Women and literature - History --- Women and literature - Greece - History - To 1500
ISBN: 0415072492 Year: 1992 Publisher: London New York Routledge
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Bereavement in literature --- Death in literature --- Deuil--Coutumes dans la littérature --- Dood in de literatuur --- Klaagliederen in de literatuur --- Lamentations dans la littérature --- Laments in literature --- Mort dans la littérature --- Mourning customs in literature --- Rouwgebruiken in de literatuur --- Sterfte in de literatuur --- Greek literature --- -Laments --- -Mourning customs in literature --- Women --- -Literature and society --- -Mourning customs --- -Women and literature --- -Literature --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Complancha --- Lamentations --- Elegiac poetry --- Mourning customs --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- History and criticism --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- -History and criticism --- Laments --- Literature and society --- Women and literature --- Greece --- History --- Greek literature - History and criticism. --- Literature and society - Greece - History. --- Women and literature - Greece - History. --- Mourning customs - Greece - History. --- Women - Greece - Social conditions. --- Mourning customs in literature. --- Laments - Greece - History. --- Laments in literature. --- Death in literature.
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