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Gendering Classicism : The Ancient World in Twentieth-Century Women's Historical Fiction by Hoberman, Ruth. is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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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 century, they gained access also to the classical learning that had for so long demarcated and legitimated the British ruling classes. Steeped in misogyny
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- Author
- Hoberman, Ruth.
- Publisher
- Albany : State University Of New York Press, C1997.
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780585067452
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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