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The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (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. This fifth and final volume in the series covers the years from 1880 onwards.
List of contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1: Kenneth Haynes: Introduction: Classical Reception in English Literature after 1880 - The Modern Spiritual Practice of Antiquity
- 2: Isobel Hurst: Classics in Education after 1880
- 3: Stephanie Nelson: Classics in Translation after 1880
- 4: Elizabeth Prettejohn: Pater and the Classics
- 5: Stefano Evangelista: Decadence and the Classical Tradition
- 6: Andrew Radford: Hardy, Gissing, and Kipling
- 7: Elizabeth Vandiver: Classics, Empire, and War
- 8: Cathy Gere: Myth and Ritual
- 9: P. Th. M. G. Liebregts: W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot
- 10: Terry Gifford: Changing Ideas of Pastoral
- 11: J. H. D. Scourfield: Forster and Woolf
- 12: Ron Bush: Ulysses: Joyce's Museum of Homers
- 13: P. Th. M. G. Liebregts: Ezra Pound
- 14: Fiona Macintosh: 'Euripides Our Contemporary': Dialogues between Shakespeare and the Greeks
- 15: David Wray: 'Learned Poetry' and the Classics: Three Case Studies
- 16: John Talbot: Auden and Lowell at the End of the Classics
- 17: Andre Furlani: Postwar North American Classics
- 18: Stephen Harrison: Classics and Poetry in England after 1960
- 19: Florence Impens: Classics and Irish Poetry after 1960
- 20: Kenneth Haynes: Eccentric Classics: The Fiction of Guy Davenport
- 21: Emily Greenwood: Subaltern Classics in Anti- and Post-Colonial Literatures in English
- Classical Reception in English Literature, after 1880: A Bibliography
- Endmatter
- Index
About the author
Kenneth Haynes is Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics at Brown University. One of his major areas of study is classical reception in European literature and he has previously co-edited The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Volume 4: 1790-1900 (OUP, 2006) and authored the monograph English Literature and Ancient Languages (OUP, 2003). He also works on translation history, the reception of philosophical texts, and twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry.
Summary
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (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. This fifth and final volume in the series covers the years from 1880 onwards.
