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In this book an international team of contributors - working across Classics, History, Politics, and English - address a range of revolutionary transformations in England, America, France, Italy, and Russia, all of which were accorded the classical treatment.
List of contents
Introduction
Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson 1. 'Innovation' and revolution in seventeenth-century England
Rachel Foxley 2. Classicising the American Crisis, 1760-1789
Nicholas Cole 3. Virtue, Representation, and the Politics of Ancient Greek History during the 1790s in Britain
Sebastian Robins 4. The Night of the Statues: revolution and classicism in Alejo Carpentier's
The Kingdom of this World Adam Lecznar 5. Classicising The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century Greece
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Vasiliki Misiou 6. 'What's the Roman Republic to me, or I to the Roman Republic?': Victorian Classicism and the Italian Risorgimento
Isobel Hurst 7. Classics, Crisis and the Soviet Experiment to 1939
Henry Stead and Hanna Paulouskaya 8. Seeking New Classics in a Crisis: Modernity as Ancient History in German Thought
Benjamin Gray 9. Of Minotaurs and Macroeconomics: Greek myth and common currency
Michael Simpson. Index
About the author
Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of
Your Secret Language: Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa (2013). With Michael Simpson she is co-author of
Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone and Dramas of the African Diaspora (2007) and co-editor of
Thinking the Olympics: the Classical Tradition and the Modern Games (2011).
Michael Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is currently completing a single-authored book titled
Lost Plots: Romanticism and the Distractions of Reading, and is collaborating with Barbara Goff on a major project called
Working Classics: Greece, Rome, and the British Labour Movement.
Summary
In this book an international team of contributors - working across Classics, History, Politics, and English - address a range of revolutionary transformations in England, America, France, Italy, and Russia, all of which were accorded the classical treatment.
