Buch, Englisch, 760 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1135 g
Buch, Englisch, 760 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1135 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-885922-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC
The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes.
OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context.
This fourth volume covers the years 1790-1880 and explores romantic and Victorian receptions of the classics. Noting the changing fortunes of particular classical authors and the influence of developments in archaeology, aesthetics and education, it traces the interplay between classical and nineteenth-century perceptions of gender, class, religion, and the politics of republic and empire in chapters engaging with many of the major writers of this period.
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- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Context and Genres
- 1: Norman Vance: Classical Authors 1790-1880
- 2: John Talbot: Classical Translation
- 3: Christopher Stray: Education and Reading
- 4: Edmund Richardson: Political Writing and Class
- 5: Phiroze Vasunia: Barbarism and Civilization: Political Writing, History, and Empire
- 6: Paul Giles: American Literature and Classical Consciousness
- 7: Norman Vance: Myth and Religion
- 8: Jonah Siegel: Art, Aesthetics, and Archaeological Poetics
- 9: Jennifer Wallace: 'Greek under the Trees': Classical Reception and Gender
- 10: Norman Vance: The Novel
- 11: Fiona Macintosh: Shakespearean Sophocles: (Re)-discovering and Performing Greek Tragedy in the Nineteenth Century
- Authors
- 12: James Castell: William Wordsworth
- 13: J. C. C. Mays: Coleridge
- 14: Adam Roberts: Walter Savage Landor and the Classics
- 15: Timothy Webb: The Unexpected Latinist: Byron and the Roman Muse
- 16: Jennifer Wallace: The Younger Romantics: Shelley and Keats
- 17: Isobel Hurst: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- 18: Nicholas Shrimpton: Matthew Arnold
- 19: Isobel Hurst: Arthur Hugh Clough
- 20: Yopie Prins: Robert Browning
- 21: A. A. Markley: Tennyson
- 22: Stephen Harrison: William Morris
- 23: Shanyn Fiske: George Eliot
- 24: Ralph Pite: Thomas Hardy
- 25: Charlotte Ribeyrol: Swinburne
- 26: Stefano Evangelista: Towards the Fin de Siècle: Walter Pater and John Addington Symonds
- Bibliography
