Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world.

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: From Monumental Fragments to Fragmented Monumentalism 1. Hellenism and Women's Print Culture: 'The Merit of Brevity.' 2. Lucy Aikin and the Evolution of Greece 'Through Infamy to Fame.' 3. Felicia Hemans and the 'Exquisite Remains' of Modern Greece 4. Letitia Landon and the Second Thoughts of Romantic Hellenism Conclusion: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Reception of Romantic Women's Hellenism Notes Appendices Bibliography Index

Noah Comet is Assistant Professor of English and an award-winning teacher at the Ohio State University, USA. His research interests include Romantic poetry and poetics, women writers, and the reception of classical antiquity. His other publications include articles on pedagogy and an online concordance to Keats's poetry.