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- catalog abstract ""Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman - as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens." "This portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image. And she contrasts her story with that of Eugenie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome - but who lost the race for renown. The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period - its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual "influence" and "movements," Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of classics. At the same time she provides a picture of a sparkling intellectual scene."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11589730.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman - as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens."".
- catalog description ""This portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image. And she contrasts her story with that of Eugenie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome - but who lost the race for renown. The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period - its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-224) and index.".
- catalog description "Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual "influence" and "movements," Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of classics. At the same time she provides a picture of a sparkling intellectual scene."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 229 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Invention of Jane Harrison.".
- catalog identifier "0674002121".
- catalog isFormatOf "Invention of Jane Harrison.".
- catalog isPartOf "Revealing antiquity ; 14".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Invention of Jane Harrison.".
- catalog spatial "England Cambridge".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "938/007/202 21".
- catalog subject "Archaeologists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Classical philology Study and teaching England Cambridge History.".
- catalog subject "Classicists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928.".
- catalog subject "Literature and anthropology England Cambridge History.".
- catalog subject "Mythology, Classical Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Newnham College Biography.".
- catalog subject "PA85.H33 B43 2000".
- catalog subject "Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943.".
- catalog title "The invention of Jane Harrison / Mary Beard.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".