The Oxford history of classical reception in English literature. Volume 1, 800-1558 / edited by Rita Copeland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copeland, Rita, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Classical influences.

English literature.

Classical literature--Appreciation--Great Britain.

Classical literature.

Classical literature--Appreciation.

Great Britain.

Greece--In literature.

Greece.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

758 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

History of classical reception in English literature

800-1558

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press 2016.

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. 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 first volume, and fourth to appear in the series, covers the years c. 800-1558, and surveys the reception and transformation of classical literary culture in England from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the Henrician era.

Contents:

1 An Introduction to Classical Reception in English Literature after 1880: The Modern Spiritual Practice of Antiquity p. 1 / Kenneth Haynes

2 Classics in Education after 1880 p. 23 / Isobel Hurst

3 Classics in Translation after 1880 p. 42 / Stephanie Nelson

4 Pater and the Classics p. 78 / Elizabeth Prettejohn

5 Decadence and the Classical Tradition p. 108 / Stefano Evangelista

6 Hardy, Gissing, and Kipling p. 139 / Andrew Radford

7 Classics, Empire, and War p. 170 / Elizabeth Vandiver

8 Myth and Ritual p. 200 / Cathy Gere

9 W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot p. 226 / Peter Liebregts

10 Changing Ideas of Pastoral p. 267 / Terry Gifford

11 Forster and Woolf p. 294 / J. H. D. Scourfield

12 Ulysses: Joyce's Museum of Homers p. 322 / Ronald Bush

13 Ezra Pound p. 358 / Peter Liebregts

14 'Euripides our Contemporary': Dialogues between Shakespeare and the Greeks p. 400 / Fiona Macintosh

15 'Learned Poetry' and the Classics: Three Case Studies p. 419 / David Wray

16 Auden and Lowell at the End of the Classics p. 444 / John Talbot

17 Post-War North American Classics p. 472 / Andre Furlani

18 Classics and Poetry in England after 1960 p. 503 / Stephen Harrison

19 Classics and Irish Poetry after 1960 p. 525 / Florence Impens

20 Eccentric Classics: The Fiction of Guy Davenport p. 549 / Kenneth Haynes

21 Subaltern Classics in Anti- and Post-Colonial Literatures in English p. 576 / Emily Greenwood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780199587230

019958723X

OCLC:

909250779