The Horror and the Glory: Euripides Among the Victorians

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dc.contributor.advisorLesley J Higgins
dc.contributor.authorJulianna Katherine Will
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T15:15:12Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T15:15:12Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-04
dc.date.updated2023-08-04T15:15:10Z
dc.degree.disciplineEnglish
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores the literary and cultural impact of Euripides in the long nineteenth century. The project tests Victorian theories of translation and appropriation against a diverse array of media (including poetry, prose, drama, non-fiction, and Pre-Raphaelite art) in multiple European languages (primarily English and ancient Greek, but also Latin, German, Italian, and French). Emphasizing ancient texts in their original languages, I examine how a wide array of Victorians (including Matthew Arnold, J. M. Barrie, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Jane Harrison, Walter Pater, Frederick Sandys, Bram Stoker, J. A. Symonds, R. Y. Tyrrell, A. W. Verrall, Augusta Webster, and Oscar Wilde) engage with Euripidean tragedy to express the perceived tribulations and monstrosities of their rapidly changing era. Three of Euripides’s most widely read tragedies form the centre of the analysis, Bacchae, Medea, and Hippolytus, all of which are underpinned by Euripides’s associations with the god Dionysus. Although Ernst Behler’s 1986 article persuasively claimed a “nineteenth century damnatio of Euripides,” I argue that Euripidean texts were nevertheless widely read, translated, and appropriated into Victorian literature as a vehicle through which writers expressed ideas about aspects of ancient Greece antithetical to Matthew Arnold’s more popular notions of its “sweetness and light.” Through a theoretical framework inspired by Bakhtin, Foucault, Burkert, and Sedgwick, I analyze ancient and Victorian discursive formations; the material conditions of Victorian life, which prompt identification with Euripidean drama; and the socio-political institutions which Euripidean-inflected Victorian texts critique.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41355
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectClassical literature
dc.subjectBritish and Irish literature
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.subject.keywordsreception theory
dc.subject.keywordsclassical reception
dc.subject.keywordsGreek reception
dc.subject.keywordsVictorian Studies
dc.subject.keywordsVictorian Literature
dc.subject.keywordsAthenian drama
dc.subject.keywordsAthenian tragedy
dc.subject.keywordsGreek literature
dc.subject.keywordsGreek drama
dc.subject.keywordsGreek tragedy
dc.subject.keywordsEuripides
dc.subject.keywordsMedea
dc.subject.keywordsBacchae
dc.subject.keywordsDionysus
dc.subject.keywordsDionysian
dc.subject.keywordsDionysus and Christ
dc.subject.keywordsHippolytus
dc.subject.keywordsPhaedra
dc.subject.keywordsJason and the Argonauts
dc.subject.keywordssophrosyne
dc.subject.keywordsclassical historiography
dc.subject.keywordsMatthew Arnold
dc.subject.keywordsJ. M. Barrie
dc.subject.keywordsPeter Pan
dc.subject.keywordsPeter and Wendy
dc.subject.keywordsWhen Wendy Grew Up
dc.subject.keywordsCharlotte Brontë
dc.subject.keywordsJane Eyre
dc.subject.keywordsGeorge Eliot
dc.subject.keywordsAdam Bede
dc.subject.keywordsJane Harrison
dc.subject.keywordsProlegomena to the Study of Greek religion
dc.subject.keywordsmaenad
dc.subject.keywordsWalter Pater
dc.subject.keywordsA Study of Dionysus
dc.subject.keywordsThe Bacchanals of Euripides
dc.subject.keywordsDemeter and Persephone
dc.subject.keywordsStudies in the History of the Renaissance
dc.subject.keywordsDenys L'Auxerrois
dc.subject.keywordsApollo in Picardy
dc.subject.keywordsFrederick Sandys
dc.subject.keywordsBram Stoker
dc.subject.keywordsDracula
dc.subject.keywordsJ. A. Symonds
dc.subject.keywordsA Problem in Greek Ethics
dc.subject.keywordsStudies of the Greek Poets
dc.subject.keywordsR. Y. Tyrrell
dc.subject.keywordsA. W. Verrall
dc.subject.keywordsAugusta Webster
dc.subject.keywordsMedea in Athens
dc.subject.keywordsOscar Wilde
dc.subject.keywordsThe Picture of Dorian Gray
dc.subject.keywordsnineteenth century
dc.titleThe Horror and the Glory: Euripides Among the Victorians
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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