Explores the intersection of feminism, historical fiction, and
modernism through the work of six writers who wrote historical
novels set in ancient Greece or Rome: Naomi Mitchison, Mary Butts,
Laura Riding, Phyllis Bentley Bryher, and Mary Renault.
"...Arguing that history provides a set of stories against
which, and through which, human beings define ourselves, the author
finds in the historical fiction of six modern women writers a range
of strategies for claiming their cultural heritage while
simultaneously differentiating themselves, as women, from its
masculinist understanding of the past.... The study makes a reader
able to understand what modern women writers found as the appeal --
and indeed, the function for self-construction -- of historical
fiction. Not only does this book open up the work of six relatively
underappreciated and very interesting novelists, but it explores
how their work both reflects, and uses, the fascination with things
Roman and Greek at the turn of the twentieth century". -- Susan
Squier, Brill Professor of English and Women's Studies,
Pennslyvania State University
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, the classical
tradition presented educated women with a massive project: the
recasting of thattradition in terms that acknowledged the existence
of women -- as historical agents and interpreters of the historical
past.
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