Victorian Sappho
by Yopie Prins
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0691059195
- ISBN 13
- 9780691059198
- Seller
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Missoula, Montana, United States
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About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ0632745
- Title
- Victorian Sappho
- Author
- Yopie Prins
- Format/Binding
- Some marginalia and underlining
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691059195
- ISBN 13
- 9780691059198
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 1999-02
- Keywords
- victorian, poetry, greek love poetry, lyric poetry, criticism
- Bookseller catalogs
- LGBTQIA; Poetry;