The Triumph of the Moon<\/em>, as one of the foremothers of today’s Pagan revival.<\/p>\nInstead, the reader gets more of “who had a spat with whom in 1889.” Beard, who teaches Classics at Cambridge University (in Harrison’s footsteps, so to speak), offers some interesting light on how Classics as a field was presented and was evolving in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. She also spends much effort in a sort of meta-biography, writing about the problems of writing a biography of Harrison. And she dances around the topic of sex, saying several times that we cannot impose the term “lesbian” on the Victorians; but, on the other hand, was she or wasn’t she?<\/p>\n
As a study of the rise of academic celebrity–Harrison as a sort of public intellectual–it is interesting, and Beard’s style is fluid and entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While I wait for some uploading issues to be sorted out, here are follow-ups to two recent posts. First, I mentioned on January 1 the book Nightmare Alley as possibly inspiring or prefiguring Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan in the 1960s. 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