{"product_id":"heretical-hellenism-shanyn-fiske-9780821418178","title":"Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians' relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. \u003ci\u003eHeretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e challenges that theory and argues that while the information women received from popular sources was fragmentary and often fostered intellectual insecurities, it was precisely the ineffability of the Greek world refracted through popular sources and reconceived through new fields of study that appealed to women writers' imaginations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining underconsidered sources such as theater history and popular journals, Shanyn Fiske uncovers the many ways that women acquired knowledge of Greek literature, history, and philosophy without formal classical training. Through discussions of women writers such as Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Jane Harrison, \u003ci\u003eHeretical Hellenism\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that women established the foundations of a heretical challenge to traditional humanist assumptions about the uniformity of classical knowledge and about women's place in literary history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeretical Hellenism\u003c\/i\u003e provides a historical rationale for a more expansive definition of classical knowledge and offers an interdisciplinary method for understanding the place of classics both in the nineteenth century and in our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shanyn Fiske\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821418173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821418178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/03\/2008 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2009 pg. 291","brand":"Shanyn Fiske","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096759935231,"sku":"9780821418178","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heretical-hellenism-shanyn-fiske-9780821418178","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}