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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rosie Wyles (Lecturer in Classical History and Literature, Lecturer in Classical History and Literature, University of Kent) , Edith Hall (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, King's College London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.10cm Weight: 0.698kg ISBN: 9780198725206ISBN 10: 0198725205 Pages: 484 Publication Date: 27 October 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"1: Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles: Introduction: Approaches to the Fountain 2: Carmel McCallum-Barry: Learned Women of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period in Italy and England: the Relevance of their Scholarship 3: Sofia Frade: Hic sita Sigea est: satis hoc: Luisa Sigea and the Role of D. Maria, Infanta of Portugal, in Female Scholarship 4: Rosie Wyles: Ménage's Learned Ladies: Anne Dacier (1647-1720) and Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) 5: Anne Dacier (1681), Renée Vivien (1903), or What Does it Mean for a Woman to Translate Sapphoa 6: Edith Hall: Intellectual Pleasure and the Woman Translator in 17th and 18th-Century England 7: Jennifer Wallace: Confined and Exposed: Elizabeth Carter's Classical Translations 8: Liz Gloyn: This Is Not A Chapter About Jane Harrison: Teaching Classics at Newnham College, 1882-1922 9: Michele Valerie Ronnick: Classical Education and the Advancement of African American Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 10: Barbara F. McManus: Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866 1946): Redefining the Classical Scholar 11: Judith P. Hallett: Greek (and Roman) Ways and Thoroughfares: the Routing of Edith Hamilton's Classical Antiquity 12: Roland Mayer: Margaret Alford: a Cambridge Latinist (1868-1951) 13: Judith P. Hallett: Eli's Daughters: Female Classics Graduate Students at Yale, 1892-1941 14: Catharine Roth: 'Ada Sara Adler (1878-1946): ""The greatest woman philologist who ever lived""' 15: Nina Braginskaya: Olga Freidenberg: a Creative Mind Incarcerated 16: Eleanor Irwin: An Unconventional Classicist: the Work and Life of Kathleen Freeman 17: Laetitia Parker: A.M. Dale 18: Rowena Fowler: Betty Radice (1912-1985) and the Survival of Classics 19: Barbara K. Gold: Simone Weil: Receiving the Iliad 20: Ruth Webb: Jacqueline de Romilly Afterword Bibliography"Reviewsan enterprisingly international collection, celebrating the struggles and successes of women intellectuals from the Renaissance to the twentieth century Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement an enterprisingly international collection, celebrating the struggles and successes of women intellectuals from the Renaissance to the twentieth century * Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement * Author InformationRosie Wyles has been a Lecturer in Classical History and Literature at the University of Kent since 2014, having previously held posts at the University of Oxford, the National University of Ireland Maynooth, the University of Nottingham, and King's College London. Her research interests include Greek and Roman performance arts, costume, reception studies within antiquity and beyond, and gender. Her monograph Costume in Greek Tragedy was published in 2011; she has also published chapters on ancient performance and its reception in several collected volumes and her study of Madame Dacier's translations of Aristophanes will be included in the forthcoming Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes. After holding posts at universities including Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham, Edith Hall took up a chair in Classics at King's College London in 2012. She has published more than twenty books on diverse aspects of ancient Greek and Roman literature and its reception and is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio and consultant to professional theatre companies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Her most recent book, Introducing the Ancient Greeks, was published by Bodley Head in 2015, in which year she was also awarded the 2015 Erasmus Prize of the European Academy for her contribution to international research. This book represents the editors' second collaboration, having previously co-edited the volume New Directions in Ancient Pantomime for Oxford University Press in 2008. The book was met with critical acclaim on publication and one essay was selected as Best Article for 2008 by the Women's Classical Caucus. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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