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American Women and Classical Myths
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  • American Women and Classical Myths
  • Written by author Gregory A. Staley
  • Published by Baylor University Press, December 2008
  • American women, in contrast to their European counterparts, have long engaged with and critiqued the myths of antiquity. American Women and Classical Myths is a collection of essays exploring the paradoxical attitudes that women in the U.S. ha
  • American women, in contrast to their European counterparts, have long engaged with and critiqued the myths of antiquity. American Women and Classical Myths is a collection of essays exploring the paradoxical attitudes that women in the U.S. have ex
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List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: The Book of Myths 1

Part I American Women

1 Examples of Classical Myth in the Poems of Phillis Wheatley Julian Mason 23

2 Margaret Fuller and Her Timeless Friends Marie Cleary 35

3 H. D., Daughter of Helen: Mythology as Actuality Sheila Murnaghan 63

4 Those Two or Three Human Stories: Willa Cather, Classical Myth, and the New World Epic Mary R. Ryder 85

5 Edith Hamilton and Greco-Roman Mythology Judith P. Hallett 105

Part II Classical Myths

6 Liberating Woman: Athena as Cultural Icon in the United States Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch 133

7 Victorian Antigone: Classicism and Women's Education in America, 1840-1900 Caroline Winterer 159

8 The Figure of Penelope in Twentieth-Century Poetry by American Women Lillian E. Doherty 181

9 The Amazons: Wonder Women in America Gregory A. Staley 207

Notes 229

Bibliography 247

List of Contributors 273

Index 277


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