Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 3
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 3

Author: Ralph Pite

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1040129099

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In their own time, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to these three celebrated Victorian authors.

Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism
Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism

Author: T. Olverson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-19

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 023024680X

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Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions.