Victorian Sappho From: Comparative Literature | Date: April 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright Comparative Literature Spring 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

VICTORIAN SAPPHO. By Yopie Prins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. 278 p.

This book can be characterized as a De Manian account of the reception of Sappho. Quoting one of De Man's essays on Wordsworth where he remarks that "death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament," Prins states that "Sappho is another name for that displacement in nineteenth-century sentimental lyric" (p. 191). Prins distinguishes her project from those reception studies that assume there was an original to be received. She suggests in passing that a person named Sappho may never have existed at ...

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