Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism

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Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism is written by T. Olverson and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 023024680X (ISBN 10) and 9780230246805 (ISBN 13).

Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions.