Constructing Sappho: refiguring the eroticism of Sappho’s poetry in eighteenth-century English translation

This thesis explores how Sappho’s eroticism was constructed in the eighteenth-century through English translation. The eight books of translation which first appear in the period 1685 – 1760 form the basis of this research, which examines the ways in which the eroticism of Sappho was constructed as...

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Main Author: Lander, Harriet Elwell
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59345/