Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction: Declining a Name -- Sappho's Broken Tongue -- Sappho Doubled: Michael Field -- Swinburne's Sapphic Sublime -- P.S. Sappho |
Summary |
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure through reconstructions of the Sapphic fragments in late-nineteenth-century England. Yopie Prins argues that the Victorian period is a critical turning point in the history of Sappho's reception; what we now call "Sappho" is in many ways an artifact of Victorian poetics. Prins reads the Sapphic fragments in Greek alongside various English translations and imitations, considering a wide range of Victorian poets--male and female, famous and forgotten--who signed their poetry in the name of Sappho. By "declining" the name in each chapter, the book presents a theoretical argument about the Sapphic signature, as well as a historical account of its implications in Victorian England. Prins explores the relations between classical philology and Victorian poetics, the tropes of lesbian writing, the aesthetics of meter, and nineteenth-century personifications of the "Poetess." as current scholarship on Sappho and her afterlife. Offering a history and theory of lyric as a gendered literary form, the book is an exciting and original contribution to Victorian studies, classical studies, comparative literature, and women's studies |
Analysis |
Aeolians |
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Alcaeus |
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Anactoria |
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Aristaenetus |
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Baudelaire |
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Browning, Robert |
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Butler, Judith |
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Cape Coast Castle |
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Catullus |
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Cypris |
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Euterpe |
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Frothingham, Ellen |
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Greer, Germaine |
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Hades |
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Hegel |
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Hellenism |
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Hephaestion |
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Hymen |
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Jackson, Virginia |
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Jenkyns, Richard |
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Kamuf, Peggy |
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Lang, Cecil |
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Lethe |
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Longinus |
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Lootens, Tricia |
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Phaon |
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ballad |
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chiasmus |
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collaboration |
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colometry |
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deconstruction |
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defacement |
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dismemberment |
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drowning |
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echo |
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epic |
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epistle |
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falling |
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flagellation |
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forgetting |
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grammar |
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invocation |
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literary history |
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love lyric |
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masochism |
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memorization |
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metalepsis |
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metonymy |
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nomination |
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organic form |
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pathos |
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personification |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and indexes |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Sappho -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 19th century
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Sappho -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
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Sappho -- Appreciation -- England
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Sappho -- Influence
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SUBJECT |
Sappho -- Influence
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Sappho -- Appreciation -- England
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Sappho -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
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Sappho -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 19th century
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Sappho fast |
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Sappho ca. v7./6. Jh. gnd |
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Englisch ... gnd (DE-588)138518394 |
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Sappho -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 19th century. nli |
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Sappho -- Translations into English -- History and criticism. nli |
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Sappho -- Appreciation -- Great Britain. nli |
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Sappho -- Influence. nli |
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Sappho, (0612?-0557? av. J.-C.) -- Influence. ram |
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Sappho. swd |
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English poetry -- Greek influences
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Love poetry, Greek -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
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Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Love poetry, Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism
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Poetics -- History -- 19th century
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Women and literature -- Greece
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Art appreciation
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English poetry
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English poetry -- Greek influences
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Feminism and literature
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Feminist poetry, English
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Homosexuality and literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Poetics
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Griechisch
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Liebeslyrik
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Women and literature
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Lyrik
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Receptie.
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Letterkunde.
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Engels.
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English poetry -- Greek influences.
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Love poetry, Greek -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
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Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Love poetry, Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism.
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Poetics -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature -- Greece.
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Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Poésie anglaise -- Influence grecque.
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Geschichte 1832-1902.
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England
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Greece
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Englisch.
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Griechisch.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780691222158 |
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0691222150 |