The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 May 2002
- ISBN 9780199242337
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 241x162x22 mm
- Weight 584 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 halftones 0
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Short description:
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850 - 1928), who spent most of her life at Newnham College, Cambridge, was renowned for her work on Greek art and religion. In her application of anthropology to classical studies, she stirred up controversy amongst her academic colleagues, while, at the same time, influencing many writers, including Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. Despite many difficulties, both academic and personal, her brilliant mind and strength of character enabled her to open up new possibilities for academic women.
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A rebel against Victorian mores, Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) became one of the first women to hold a research fellowship at Cambridge. A friend of such distinguished figures as Gilbert Murray and Francis Cornford, she was renowned for her public lectures on Greek art, for her books on Greek religion and mythology, and for her unconventional and outspoken views.
In her application of anthropology to classical studies, Harrison stirred up controversy amongst her academic colleagues, while, at the same time, influencing many writers, including Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. Driven by the conviction that the study of primitive Greek culture was an intensely practical enterprise, addressing the fundamental emotional needs of all people, she set her academic research in the broader context of human life. Her work on Greek religion is really a critique of all religion.
Although she was a powerful role model for academic women and addressed issues which were central to the women's movement, when it came to women's rights, her own views were not always in keeping with those of her suffragist contemporaries. Harrison wrote not to champion any cause, but out of a passionate desire to share what she believed to be important and true. In so doing, she both opened up new possibilities for academic women and made a considerable contribution to classical studies.
Annabel Robinson has written an excellent, readable biography of this fascinating woman ... I compliment Robinson for crafting a cohesive and persuasive portrait of an extraordinary woman.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Origins; 1850-74
A Room of Her Own; Newnham College 1874-9
'Salvationist for Greek Art': London 1879-86
Mythology and monuments: Greece and London, 1886-99
Women and Knowledge: Newnham 1898 - 1901
Ker and heiron: Jane Harrison and Gilbert Murray 1901-3
Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion: Newnham 1903-6
The Pillar and the Maiden: Newnham 1906-7
Crabbed age and youth: Cambridge 1908-9
Heresy and humanity; Cambridge 1907-10
Unanimism and Conversion: Cambridge and Europe 1910-14
Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse: Cambridge and Paris 1914-16
Via crucis, via lucis: Cambridge, France, Spain, and London 1916-28
