Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing Strange Monsters

by Cox, Fiona

• ISBN13: 9780198779889
• ISBN10: 0198779887
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-10-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Fiona Cox, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Exeter

Fiona Cox is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter, and has previously worked at the National University of Ireland, Cork and Universite Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III. She is the author of Aeneas Takes the Metro: The Presence of Virgil in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Routledge, 1999) and Sibylline Sisters: Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing (OUP, 2011). She has also published widely in the area of nineteenth-century French literature, particularly on Victor Hugo, and is currently editing a volume entitled Homer's Daughters: Homer's Presence in Women's Writing, 1914-2014 with Elena Theodorakopoulos (forthcoming with OUP).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Ali Smith
2. Marina Warner
3. Yoko Tawada
4. Alice Oswald
5. Mary Zimmerman
6. Saviana Stanescu
7. Jo Shapcott
8. Marie Darrieussecq
9. Josephine Balmer and Averill Curdy
10. Michele Roberts and Clare Pollard
11. Jane Alison
Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index