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Victorian Sappho
by Prins, Yopie
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- as new
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0691059195
- ISBN 13
- 9780691059198
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About This Item
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999 Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. "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." xiii, 279p.illus. bibliography, index..
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040932
- Title
- Victorian Sappho
- Author
- Prins, Yopie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0691059195
- ISBN 13
- 9780691059198
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, NJ
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- VICTORIAN POETRY SAPPHO ANCIENT GREEK INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE LITERARY CRITICISM
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