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1 online resource (xvi, 332 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface -- 1. Origins; 1850-74 -- 2. A room of her own : Newnham College 1874-9 -- 3. 'Salvationist for Greek art' : London 1879-86 -- 4. Mythology and monuments : Greece and London, 1886-99 -- 5. Women and knowledge : Newnham 1898 -- 1901 -- 6. Ker and heiron : Jane Harrison and Gilbert Murray 1901-3 -- 7. Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion : Newnham 1903-6 -- 8. The Pillar and the Maiden: Newnham 1906-7 -- 9. Crabbed age and youth: Cambridge 1908-9 -- 10. Heresy and humanity : Cambridge 1907-10 -- 11. Unanimism and conversion : Cambridge and Europe 1910-14 -- 12. Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse : Cambridge and Paris 1914-16 -- 13. Via crucis, via lucis : Cambridge, France, Spain, and London 1916-28 |
| Summary |
"A rebel against Victorian mores, Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was the first woman to make a name in modern classical scholarship. She was renowned for her public lectures on Greek art and for her books on ancient Greek religion and mythology. She was fascinated by primitive ritual as it survives in the superstitions and practices of ordinary people. Working together with Gilbert Murray at Oxford and Francis Cornford at Cambridge, she applied new discoveries in anthropology and sociology to classical studies, stirring up controversy amongst classicists, while influencing English writers such as T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928.
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Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928 fast |
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Newnham College -- Biography
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Newnham College fast |
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Classicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Archaeologists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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History, Ancient -- Historiography
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Mythology -- Historiography
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Ritual -- Historiography
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Archaeologists
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Classicists
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History, Ancient -- Historiography
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Mythology -- Historiography
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Ritual -- Historiography
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Great Britain
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191714108 |
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0191714100 |
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