Description: Victorian Sappho, Paperback by Prins, Yopie, ISBN 0691059195, ISBN-13 9780691059198, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure through reconstructions of the Sapphic fragments in late-nineteenth-century England. Yopie Prins argues that the Victorian period is a critical turning point in the history of Sapphos reception; what we now call "Sappho" is in many ways an artifact of Victorian poetics.
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, th 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, th is an exciting and original contribution to Victorian studies, classical studies, comparative literature, and womens studies.
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Book Title: Victorian Sappho
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Victorian Sappho
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women Authors, Gender Studies, Poetry, Ancient & Classical, LGBT, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 1999
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Yopie Prins
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
