Author: N. Comet

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-04

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1137316225

Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world.