| American Women and Classical Myths Contributor(s): Staley, Gregory A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1932792856 ISBN-13: 9781932792850 Publisher: Baylor University Press OUR PRICE: $39.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2008 Annotation: American women, in contrast to their European counterparts, have long engaged with and critiqued the myths of antiquity. "American Women and Classical Myths" is a collection of essays exploring the paradoxical attitudes that women in the U.S. have exhibited over a span of more than two centuries. Contributors address two broad topics. They examine the attempts of several influential American women, including Margaret Fuller, Edith Hamilton and Hilda Doolittle, to interpret myth for an audience that distrusted it. In addition, they show how American women have reinterpreted myths about women such as Antigone, Penelope, or the Amazons to create identities appropriate to women in the New World. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 810.938 |
| LCCN: 2008011910 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.1" W x 9.04" (1.01 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: American women, in contrast to their European counterparts, have long engaged with and critiqued the myths of antiquity. American Women and Classical Myths is a collection of essays exploring the paradoxical attitudes that women in the U.S. have exhibited over a span of more than two centuries. Contributors address two broad topics. They examine the attempts of several influential American women, including Margaret Fuller, Edith Hamilton and Hilda Doolittle, to interpret myth for an audience that distrusted it. In addition, they show how American women have reinterpreted myths about women such as Antigone, Penelope, or the Amazons to create identities appropriate to women in the New World. |