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Zusatztext The clear structure, the brisk essays, and the cutting edge scholarship of the contributors will make this excellent volume an indispensable companion to both scholars and students of classical reception in the nineteenth century for a long time to come. Informationen zum Autor Norman Vance is Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. He grew up in Northern Ireland, read English at Oxford, and held a Junior Research Fellowship at New College before he moved to Sussex. He is a trustee of the English Association and has served on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College and various international assessment boards of the Irish Research Council. He is author of The Victorians and Ancient Rome (1997) and Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God (2013).Jennifer Wallace is Lecturer and Director of Studies in English and Comparative Drama at Peterhouse, Cambridge University. She read Classics and English as an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge, and wrote a PhD on Shelley and Hellenism. She held a JRF at Clare College, Cambridge, before taking up her current post at Peterhouse in 1995. She serves on the jury of the annual Criticos prize, and on the committee of the triennial Cambridge Greek Play. Her publications include Shelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism (1997), Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination (2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy (2007). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Norman Vance and Jennifer Wallace: 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 Siecle: Walter Pater and John Addington Symonds; Bibliography ...
List of contents
- 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
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It is in the details of its best chapters that it is most valuable. There is much learning in it. Richard Jenkyns, The Times Literary Supplement
