Virgil's presence in contemporary women's writing /
First Statement of Responsibility
Fiona Cox
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New York :
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Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xi, 284 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Classical presences
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-279) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Virgil in contemporary women's poetry -- Ruth Fainlight -- Eavan Boland -- Michèle Roberts -- Margaret Drabble -- A.S. Byatt -- Christa Wolf -- Monique Wittig -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Janet Lembke -- Ursula Le Guin
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Through an analysis of Virgil's presence in the work of contemporary women writers from North America, Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, this book identifies a new Virgil: one who speaks in female tones of the anxieties, exclusions pleasures and threats of the contemporary world