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In a work that re-investigates archival materials and deploys an innovative theoretical framework, Jean Mills explores the intellectual and political relationship between Virginia Woolf and the Cambridge classicist Jane Ellen Harrison. Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism discovers an intimate connection crucial to Woolf's professional identity and intellectual and artistic development in Harrison's controversial, feminist interpretations of Greek mythology. Mills argues that cross-reading Jane Harrison and Virginia Woolf exposes a distinctive relationship between two women intellectuals, one that does not rehearse the linearity of influence but instead demonstrates the intricacy of intertextuality--an active and transformative use of one body of writing by another writer--that makes of Virginia Woolf's modernism a specifically feminist amplification. This cross-reading reveals a dimension of modernism that has been overlooked or minimized: Mills demonstrates that the questions preoccupying Harrison also resonated with Woolf, who adapted Harrison's ideas to her own intellectual, political, and literary pursuits. To an extent, Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism participates in an act of classical recovery. It is an effort to revive and reclaim Harrison's work and to illustrate the degree to which her cultural, political, and scholastic example informed one of the major modernist voices of the twentieth century. --Provided by publisher.

Modernism (Literature) --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Harrison, Jane Ellen,

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Archaeologists --- Classicists --- History, Ancient --- Mythology --- Ritual --- Biography --- Biography --- Historiography --- Historiography --- Historiography --- Harrison, Jane Ellen, --- Newnham College --- Biography.

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"Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced the literature and thought of the twentieth century. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's Dionysus became a symbol of the irrational forces of culture that cannot be contained, and explores the presence of Nietzsche's Greeks in the diverse writings of Jane Harrison, D. H. Lawrence, Martin Heidegger, Richard Schechner and Wole Soyinka (amongst others). From Jane Harrison's controversial ideas about Greek religion in an anthropological modernity, to Wole Soyinka's reimagining of a postcolonial genre of tragedy, each of the writers under discussion used the Nietzschean vision of Greece to develop subversive discourses of temporality, identity, history and classicism. In this way, they all took up Nietzsche's call to disrupt pre-existing discourses of classical meaning and create new modes of thinking about the Classics that speak to the immediate concerns of the present"--

Civilization, Modern --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Greek influences. --- Dionysus, --- Harrison, Jane Ellen, --- Heidegger, Martin, --- Lawrence, D. H. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Schechner, Richard, --- Soyinka, Wole. --- Influence. --- Geburt der Tragödie (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).

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Harrison became one of the first women to hold a research fellowship at Cambridge. In her application of anthropology to classical studies, she stirred up controversy amongst her colleagues while influencing Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Woolf.

Classicists --- Archaeologists --- History, Ancient --- Mythology --- Ritual --- Historiography. --- -Classicists --- -Mythology --- -Ritual --- -History, Ancient --- -928 --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Myths --- Legends --- Religion --- Religions --- Folklore --- Gods --- Myth --- Classical scholars --- Classics scholars --- Hellenists --- Latinists --- Philologists --- Scholars --- Historians --- Historiography --- History Biographies Persons in literature, history etc --- Harrison, Jane Ellen --- Newnham College --- University of Cambridge. --- 928 --- Harrison, Jane Ellen, --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Faculty --- Classicists - Great Britain - Biography. --- Archaeologists - Great Britain - Biography. --- History, Ancient - Historiography. --- Mythology - Historiography. --- Ritual - Historiography.

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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 lively and innovative 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 Eugénie 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 vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene. The Invention of Jane Harrison offers shrewd history and undiluted fun.

Archaeologists --- Classical philology --- Classicists --- Literature and anthropology --- Mythology, Classical --- Study and teaching --- History. --- Historiography. --- Harrison, Jane Ellen, --- Strong, Eugenie Sellers. --- Newnham College --- -Classicists --- -Literature and anthropology --- -Mythology, Classical --- -Classical philology --- Anthropology and literature --- Classical scholars --- Classics scholars --- Hellenists --- Latinists --- -Harrison, Jane Ellen --- Strong, Eugenie Sellers --- -Philology, Classical --- Classical mythology --- Anthropology --- Philology, Classical --- Classical antiquities --- Greek language --- Greek literature --- Greek philology --- Humanism --- Latin language --- Latin literature --- Latin philology --- Study and teaching&delete& --- History --- Historiography --- Strong, Eugénie, --- Strong, Eugénie Sellers, --- Strong, S. Arthur, --- Strong, Sandford Arthur, --- Strong, Arthur, --- Sellers, E. --- Sellers, Eugénie, --- University of Cambridge. --- Classical philology - Study and teaching - England - Cambridge - History. --- Literature and anthropology - England - Cambridge - History. --- Archaeologists - Great Britain - Biography. --- Classicists - Great Britain - Biography. --- Mythology, Classical - Historiography.