Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature - Volume 4: 1790-1880

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.

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Norman (Professor of English Literature and Vance
• Assisted by: Norman Vance (Editor), Vance Norman (Editor), Jennifer Wallace (Editor), Wallace Jennifer (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2020
• EAN: 9780198859222
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885922-2
• No. of pages: 760
• Series: Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, C 1700 To C 1800, BCE period – Protohistory