Ladies' greek: victorian translations of tragedy
Auteur :
Prins, Yopie
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691141886
Date de publication :
9 mai 2017
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
635 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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