BONNIE MacLACHLAN
JUDITH FLETCHER
Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
Copyright Date: 2007
Published
by: University of Toronto Press
Pages: 220
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442685109
Book Description:
This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, from ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the Medieval and early Modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novelAlias Grace.
eISBN: 978-1-4426-8510-9
Subjects: History, Language & Literature