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Author Prins, Yopie

Title Victorian Sappho / Yopie Prins
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999

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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
Alcaeus
Anactoria
Aristaenetus
Baudelaire
Browning, Robert
Butler, Judith
Cape Coast Castle
Catullus
Cypris
Euterpe
Frothingham, Ellen
Greer, Germaine
Hades
Hegel
Hellenism
Hephaestion
Hymen
Jackson, Virginia
Jenkyns, Richard
Kamuf, Peggy
Lang, Cecil
Lethe
Longinus
Lootens, Tricia
Phaon
ballad
chiasmus
collaboration
colometry
deconstruction
defacement
dismemberment
drowning
echo
epic
epistle
falling
flagellation
forgetting
grammar
invocation
literary history
love lyric
masochism
memorization
metalepsis
metonymy
nomination
organic form
pathos
personification
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Sappho -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 19th century
Sappho -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
Sappho -- Appreciation -- England
Sappho -- Influence
SUBJECT Sappho -- Influence
Sappho -- Appreciation -- England
Sappho -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
Sappho -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 19th century
Sappho fast
Sappho ca. v7./6. Jh. gnd
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Sappho -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 19th century. nli
Sappho -- Translations into English -- History and criticism. nli
Sappho -- Appreciation -- Great Britain. nli
Sappho -- Influence. nli
Sappho, (0612?-0557? av. J.-C.) -- Influence. ram
Sappho. swd
Subject English poetry -- Greek influences
Love poetry, Greek -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
Love poetry, Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism
Poetics -- History -- 19th century
Women and literature -- Greece
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Art appreciation
English poetry
English poetry -- Greek influences
Feminism and literature
Feminist poetry, English
Homosexuality and literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Poetics
Griechisch
Liebeslyrik
Women and literature
Lyrik
Receptie.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
English poetry -- Greek influences.
Love poetry, Greek -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Love poetry, Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism.
Poetics -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature -- Greece.
Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Poésie anglaise -- Influence grecque.
Geschichte 1832-1902.
England
Greece
Englisch.
Griechisch.
Genre/Form History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780691222158
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