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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st US Ed. A collection of essays that explores the paradoxical attitudes that women in the US have exhibited over a span of more than two centuries. It examines the attempts of several influential American women, including Margaret Fuller, Edith Hamilton and Hilda Doolittle, to interpret myth for an audience that distrusted it.281p, illus bibliography, Note on ffep else fine. Book.…

Softcover. Condition: Gut. 282 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Guter Zustand, Schnitt teilweise angeschmutzt, wenige Seiten leicht geknickt / Good condition, cut partly soiled, few pages slightly creased. - Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Book of Myths Part I: American Women 1. Examples of Classical Myth in the Poems of Phillis Wheatley Julian Mason 2. Margaret Fuller and Her Timeless Friends Marie Cleary 3. H.D., Daughter of Helen: Mythology as Actuality Sheila Murnaghan 4. Those Two or Three Human Stories: Willa Cather, Classical Myth, and the New World Epic Mary R. Ryder 5. Edith Hamilton and Greco-Roman Mythology Judith P. Hallett Part II: Classical Myths 6. Liberating Woman: Athena as Cultural Icon in the United States Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch 7. Victorian Antigone: Classicism and Women's Education in America, 1840-1900 Caroline Winterer 8. The Figure of Penelope in Twentieth-Century Poetry by American Women Lillian E. Doherty 9. The Amazons: Wonder Women in America Gregory A. Staley. ISBN 9781932792850 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495.…