Circe's Garden: Rewriting Epic and Revolutionary Time.

This article focuses on two retellings of the story of Circe, the witch from Homer's Odyssey, exploring Augusta Webster's 1870 dramatic monologue 'Circe' and Madeline Miller's 2018 novel of the same name. In both texts Circe's main motivation is to escape from the island, depicted as an idyllic gard...

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Published in:	Comparative Critical Studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 7 - 27
Main Author:	Rivers, Anna
Format:	Article
Published:	Edinburgh University Press Feb2022
Subjects:	Monologue Pastoral literature Feminists Utopian plays Aesthetic movement (Art)
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