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Gendering classicism : the ancient world in twentieth-century women's historical fiction /
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 acce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 the Phallus: Genital Ambiguity in Mary Renault's Historical Novels
- Ch. 7. History as Palimpsest: Gender and Narrative in Bryher's Gate to the Sea
- Ch. 8. Ancient Rome, Gender, and British Imperialism
- Ch. 9. Hostage to History: Naomi Mitchison and Rome
- Ch. 10. When Mana Meets Woman: Mary Butts's Cleopatra
- Ch. 11. Phyllis Bentley: Historical Fiction as Equivocation
- Ch. 12. Bryher the Graeco-Phoenician and Rome
- Ch. 13. "I am his fulfilment": Claiming the Paternal Inheritance.