Women Classical Scholars
Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 January 2020
- ISBN 9780198855088
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 211x138x26 mm
- Weight 608 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 28 black-and-white illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of the discipline, it explores their legacy and provides scholars of today with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had.
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Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles from patriarchal social systems and educational institutions - from learning Latin and Greek as a marginalized minority, to being excluded from institutional support, denigrated for being lightweight or over-ambitious, and working in the shadows of husbands, fathers, and brothers - they nevertheless continued to teach, edit, translate, analyse, and elucidate the texts left to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
In this volume twenty essays by international leaders in the field chronicle the lives of women from around the globe who have shaped the discipline over more than five hundred years. Arranged in broadly chronological order from the Italian, Iberian, and Portuguese Renaissance through to the Stalinist Soviet Union and occupied France, they synthesize illuminating overviews of the evolution of classical scholarship with incisive case-studies into often overlooked key figures: some, like Madame Anne Dacier, were already famous in their home countries but have been neglected in previous, male-centred accounts, while others have been almost completely lost to the mainstream cultural memory. This book identifies and celebrates them - their frustrations, achievements, and lasting records; in so doing it provides the classical scholars of today, regardless of gender, with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had.
In summary, this is a positive, inclusive, wide-ranging collection which challenges the idea of the history of classical scholarship being inherently masculinised, and foregrounds the way in which women have contributed to the field. It sits alongside the ongoing feminist project of writing women back in history generally, and complements the exciting work on gender being done in Classics. Uncovering our 'foremothers' continues to authorise women's purchase on the field and serves as an act of both assimilation and inspiration.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Approaches to the Fountain
Learned Women of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period in Italy and England: the Relevance of their Scholarship
Hic sita Sigea est: satis hoc: Luisa Sigea and the Role of D. Maria, Infanta of Portugal, in Female Scholarship
Ménage's Learned Ladies: Anne Dacier (1647-1720) and Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678)
Anne Dacier (1681), Renée Vivien (1903), or What Does it Mean for a Woman to Translate Sapphoa
Intellectual Pleasure and the Woman Translator in 17th and 18th-Century England
Confined and Exposed: Elizabeth Carter's Classical Translations
This Is Not A Chapter About Jane Harrison: Teaching Classics at Newnham College, 1882-1922
Classical Education and the Advancement of African American Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866 1946): Redefining the Classical Scholar
Greek (and Roman) Ways and Thoroughfares: the Routing of Edith Hamilton's Classical Antiquity
Margaret Alford: a Cambridge Latinist (1868-1951)
Eli's Daughters: Female Classics Graduate Students at Yale, 1892-1941
'Ada Sara Adler (1878-1946): "The greatest woman philologist who ever lived"'
Olga Freidenberg: a Creative Mind Incarcerated
An Unconventional Classicist: the Work and Life of Kathleen Freeman
A.M. Dale
Betty Radice (1912-1985) and the Survival of Classics
Simone Weil: Receiving the Iliad
Jacqueline de Romilly
Afterword
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