Ladies' Greek : Victorian Translations of Tragedy.
Prins,Yopie.
Ladies' Greek : Victorian Translations of Tragedy. / Yopie Prins. - , New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 2017. - xviii, 297p. : 24cm.
In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken?
9780691141893
Brijwasi Book Distributors : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi.
Female classical literacy
Victorian women
Culture
823.809 PRI
Ladies' Greek : Victorian Translations of Tragedy. / Yopie Prins. - , New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 2017. - xviii, 297p. : 24cm.
In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken?
9780691141893
Brijwasi Book Distributors : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi.
Female classical literacy
Victorian women
Culture
823.809 PRI
