It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Victorian Women Writers and the Classics by Isobel Hurst
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Isobel Hurst examines the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged. The restrictions which applied to women's access to classical learning liberated them from the repressive and sometimes alienating effects of a traditional classical education. Women writers' reworkings of classical texts serve a variety of purposes: to validate women's claims to authorship, to demand access to education, to highlight feminist issues through the heroines of...
Victorian Women Writers and the Classics by Isobel Hurst is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.
This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Victorian Women Writers and the Classics aloud.
Victorian Women Writers and the Classics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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