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Author Williams, Jeni.

Title Interpreting nightingales : gender, class, and histories / Jeni Williams
Published Sheffield : Academic Press, 1997

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Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction. Reflecting on the Nightingale. 1. Sorrowful Weaving: Nightingales in Greek and Latin texts2. Christian Nightingales: Transforming the Classical to the Christian; the Sacred to the Erotic3. Debating Class and Gender: Medieval English Nightingales4. Fragmentation and Alienation: Victorian Nightingales5. Bitter Confusions: Barrett Browning among the NightingalesAppendix 1. Nightingales in Classical LiteratureAppendix 2. Christian Latin PoemsNotesBibliographyIndex of Names and Titles
Summary The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([247]-260
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Subject Nightingale in literature.
Literature -- Philosophy.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Literature -- Philosophy
Nightingale in literature
Letterkunde.
Nachtegalen.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1847141854
9781847141859
1281295469
9781281295460
9786611295462
6611295461