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Keck, Michaela

 
9783825367060: Deliberately Out of Bounds: Women's Work on Classical Myth in Nineteenth-century American Fiction
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ISBN 10 : 3825367061 ISBN 13 : 9783825367060
Editeur : Universitatsverlag Winter, 2017

Synopsis

Nymphs, maenads, goddesses, and heroines from classical myth populate nineteenth-century American women writers' fiction in exhilaratingly innovative, often multilayered and complex reconfigurations. Based on Hans Blumenberg's notion of artists' ongoing "work on myth" and Aby Warburg's concept of 'pathos formulae', this monograph explores the functions and meanings of these ancient figures in image and text. Examining novels by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, Elizabeth Stoddard, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Louisa May Alcott, this study sheds light on the intellectual and aesthetic achievements of these American women writers across a range of genres. Furthermore, the book challenges the assumption that women's "work on myth" did not thrive until the second half of the nineteenth century and proposes an approach to overcome the persisting binary and gendered opposition between myth and logos as the 'feminine' body and the 'male' mind.

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Éditeur
Universitatsverlag Winter
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3825367061
ISBN 13 
9783825367060
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
363
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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