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Article: Victorian Sappho.(Review)
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- Criticism
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- January 1, 2000
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Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii + 279. $18.95 paper.
Over the past five years there has been a resurgence of interest in the Greek lyricist, Sappho, evident in a cluster of intriguing publications, some of the most notable being Sappho Is Burning by Page duBois (1995); Sappho's Immortal Daughters by Margaret Williamson (1995); Sappho and the Virgin Mary by Ruth Vanita (1996); and Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane Snyder (1997). Yopie Prins's Victorian Sappho is not only the latest intervention in this debate, but also the self-reflective critical voice that asks what it is about the fragmentary ...