American women and classical myths
By: Gregory A. Staley, editor.
Contributors: Staley, Gregory Allan.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781932792850
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- Classical influences; American literature -- Greek influences; American literature -- Roman influences; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Women in literature; Women -- Mythology; Classicism -- United States; United States -- Civilization -- Classical influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Examples of classical myth in the poems of Phillis Wheatley / Julian Mason; title: Margaret Fuller and her timeless friends / Marie Cleary; title: H.D., daughter of Helen : mythology as actuality / Heila Murnaghan; title: Those two or three human stories : Willa Cather, classical myth, and the new world epic / Mary R. Ryder; title: Edith Hamilton and Greco-Roman mythology / Judith P. Hallett; title: Liberating woman : Athena as cultural icon in the United States / Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch; title: Victorian Antigone : classicism and women's education in America, 1840-1900 / Caroline Winterer; title: The figure of Penelope in twentieth-century poetry by American women / Lillian E. Doherty; title: The Amazons : wonder women in America / Gregory A. Staley.