Dr Isobel Hurst

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Publications and research outputs

Book

Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer Hurst, Isobel. 2006. Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199283516

Book Section

‘All the allurements of beauty and eloquence’: Aspasia of Miletus and the Intellectual Woman in the Nineteenth Century Hurst, Isobel. 2025. ‘All the allurements of beauty and eloquence’: Aspasia of Miletus and the Intellectual Woman in the Nineteenth Century. In: Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor, eds. Women Re-Creating Classics: A History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 55-66. ISBN 9781350445086
George Eliot and the Classics Hurst, Isobel. 2025. George Eliot and the Classics. In: Juliette Atkinson and Elisha Cohn, eds. The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 113-128. ISBN 9780192856593
Long Ago and Sapphic Poetics Hurst, Isobel. 2025. Long Ago and Sapphic Poetics. In: Sarah Parker, ed. Michael Field in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 135-143. ISBN 9781009382625

Classical Antiquity Hurst, Isobel. 2024. Classical Antiquity. In: Lisa Rodensky, ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199799558
The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in the Victorian Period Hurst, Isobel. 2021. The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in the Victorian Period. In: Paula Rabinowitz, ed. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190201098
‘What’s the Roman Republic to me, or I to the Roman Republic?’: Victorian Classicism and the Italian Risorgimento Hurst, Isobel. 2020. ‘What’s the Roman Republic to me, or I to the Roman Republic?’: Victorian Classicism and the Italian Risorgimento. In: Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson, eds. Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 109-127. ISBN 9780815361770
Monologue and Dialogue: The Odyssey in Contemporary Women’s Poetry Hurst, Isobel. 2019. Monologue and Dialogue: The Odyssey in Contemporary Women’s Poetry. In: Fiona Cox and Elena Theodorakopoulos, eds. Homer's Daughters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177-192. ISBN 9780198802587
Plutarch and the Victorians Hurst, Isobel. 2019. Plutarch and the Victorians. In: Sophia Xenophontos and Katerina Oikonomopoulou, eds. Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch. Leiden: Brill, pp. 564-572. ISBN 9789004409446
Nineteenth-Century Literary and Artistic Responses to Roman Decadence Hurst, Isobel. 2019. Nineteenth-Century Literary and Artistic Responses to Roman Decadence. In: Jane H. Desmarais and David Weir, eds. Decadence and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 47-65. ISBN 9781108426244
Classics in Education after 1880 Hurst, Isobel. 2019. Classics in Education after 1880. In: Kenneth Haynes, ed. The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 5: After 1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 23-41. ISBN 9780199585106
From Epic to Monologue: Tennyson and Homer Hurst, Isobel. 2018. From Epic to Monologue: Tennyson and Homer. In: Silvio Bär and Emily Hauser, eds. Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 117-137. ISBN 9781350039322
'Tragedy in the disguise of mirth': Robert Browning, George Eliot and Wilde Hurst, Isobel. 2017. 'Tragedy in the disguise of mirth': Robert Browning, George Eliot and Wilde. In: Kathleen Riley; Alastair J. L. Blanshard and Iarla Manny, eds. Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 127-140. ISBN 9780198789260
Pater as Professional Classicist Hurst, Isobel. 2017. Pater as Professional Classicist. In: Charles Martindale; Stefano Evangelista and Elizabeth Prettejohn, eds. Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 33-46. ISBN 9780198723417
Freedom to Invent: Graves’s Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity Hurst, Isobel. 2015. Freedom to Invent: Graves’s Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity. In: Alisdair Gibson, ed. Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 201-220. ISBN 9780198738053
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hurst, Isobel. 2015. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In: Norman Vance and Jennifer Wallace, eds. Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol. 4: 1790-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 449-470. ISBN 9780198859222
Arthur Hugh Clough Hurst, Isobel. 2015. Arthur Hugh Clough. In: Norman Vance and Jennifer Wallace, eds. Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol. 4: 1780-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 495-508. ISBN 978-0199594603
Victorian Poetry and the Classics Hurst, Isobel. 2013. Victorian Poetry and the Classics. In: Matthew Bevis, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 149-165. ISBN 978-0-19-957646-3
'We’ll all be Penelopes then': Art and Domesticity in American Women’s Poetry, 1958-1996 Hurst, Isobel. 2009. 'We’ll all be Penelopes then': Art and Domesticity in American Women’s Poetry, 1958-1996. In: S. J. Harrison, ed. Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 275-294. ISBN 978 0 19 923373 1
'Reanimating the Romans: Mary Shelley's Response to Roman Ruins' Hurst, Isobel. 2007. 'Reanimating the Romans: Mary Shelley's Response to Roman Ruins'. In: Richard Wrigley, ed. Regarding Romantic Rome. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 125-136. ISBN 978-3-03911-120-6
'A fleet of … inexperienced Argonauts': Oxford women and the Classics, 1873-1920 Hurst, Isobel. 2007. 'A fleet of … inexperienced Argonauts': Oxford women and the Classics, 1873-1920. In: Christopher Stray, ed. Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800-2000. Duckworth, pp. 14-27. ISBN 9781472537829
'The Feminine of Homer': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Casa Guidi Windows Hurst, Isobel. 2005. 'The Feminine of Homer': Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Casa Guidi Windows. In: Rachel Langford, ed. Depicting desire : gender, sexuality and the family in nineteenth century Europe : literary and artistic perspectives. 21 Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 181-196. ISBN 978-3-03910-321-8

Article

An autumnal underworld: Louise Glück’s Averno Hurst, Isobel. 2022. An autumnal underworld: Louise Glück’s Averno. Letteratura e Letterature, 16, pp. 75-85. ISSN 1971-906X
Epic and Performance Hurst, Isobel. 2022. Epic and Performance. The Classical Review, 72(1), pp. 314-317. ISSN 0009-840X
The Epic Tradition Hurst, Isobel. 2021. The Epic Tradition. Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature,