Jane Austen: Closet Classicist by DeForest, Mary Margolies

Jane Austen: Closet Classicist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781537225333)

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Jane Austen: Closet Classicist by DeForest, Mary Margolies

Jane Austen: Closet Classicist

$12.16
Jane Austen: Closet Classicist by DeForest, Mary Margolies

Jane Austen: Closet Classicist

$12.16
Format: Paperback
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It is a truth universally established that Jane Austen knew neither Latin nor Greek. As a literary detective, Mary Margolies DeForest disputes this. In Austen's day, classically educated women were loathed. Austen wanted readers to know that she and her best characters had a classical education--just not in her lifetime Unlike writers who paraded their educational credentials, Austen did not send modern readers diving into footnotes to translate a chunk of Greek or Latin. Instead, she revealed a classical education subtly but profoundly. As DeForest argues, a classical education shapes Austen's characters, their language, and their stories.

Author: Mary Margolies DeForest
ISBN-10: 1537225332
ISBN-13: 9781537225333
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2018
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.61d
By Mary Margolies DeForest
By Mary Margolies DeForest
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Mary Margolies DeForest (PhD, classics) lives with her husband and their imperious cat.

A child of the sixties, Dr. DeForest felt an affinity for the protest poets of ancient Rome. Refusing to praise the great men of their day, these poets found inspiration in Apollonius, a poet and scholar of Alexandria's famous Library. When DeForest was turning her dissertation on Apollonius into a book, Robert Kellogg (co-author of The Nature of Narrative ) wrote her a letter that gave her an aerial view of the refusal theme crossing the boundaries of time, space, and language. Then, as if through a telescope, Jane Austen appeared.

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