Brill's companion to classics in the early Americas / edited by Maya Feile Tomes, Adam J. Goldwyn, Matthew Duquès.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feile Tomes, Maya, editor.

Goldwyn, Adam J., editor.

Duquès, Matthew E., editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Brill's companions to classical reception ; v. 21.

Brill's companions to classical reception, 2213-1426 ; volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--Classical influences.

Literature, Modern.

Latin American literature--Classical influences.

Latin American literature.

American literature--Classical influences.

American literature.

French-Canadian literature--Classical influences.

French-Canadian literature.

Comparative literature--Classical and modern.

Comparative literature.

America--Civilization--Classical influences.

America.

America--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 435 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Contents:

Introduction : synecdoche in reverse : America's transhemispheric classics / Maya Feile Tomes

Utopia writes back : José Manuel Peramás on the limits of republicanism / Michael Brumbaugh

Degenerating the classical canon in Brazil : Bernardo Guimaraes's Ovidian A origem do mênstruo ('The origin of Menstruation') (1875) / Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha

Heaven and hell : classical rhetoric and courtly wit in early modern Brazil

The case of Gregório de Matos / Artur Costrino

La Primera parte del Parnaso antarctico ('The first part of the Antarctic Parnassus') : print and the politics of translation in early Peruvian poetry / Joanne van der Woude

Justaque cupidine lucri ardentes ('Burning with a just desire for gain') : a Barbadian poet celebrates the Peace of Utrecht / John T. Gilmore

Lucianic dialogues in colonial Santo Domingo : The historical miscellany of Luis Joseph Peguero / Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Nahua Latinists : classical learning and indigenous legacies in sixteenth-century Mexico / Andrew Laird

Romans in Spain and Britain as models and anti-models for New World encounters / David A. Lupher

A New England underworld : the necropolitics and necropoetics of katabasis in the Anarchiad (1786-87) and mock epics of the early U.S. Republic / Adam J. Goldwyn

"Familar commerce" : the classical origins of John Winthrop's "modell" of American affiliation / Ivy Schweitzer

Phillis Wheatley's Niobean poetics / Nicole A. Spigner

William Apess and the Athens of America / Matthew Duquès

Beavers as the bees of New France : the beaver's 'allegorical turn' in Father François du Creux's Historia Canadensis / William M. Barton and Jean-Nicolas Mailloux

The fall of Troy in old Huronia : the letters of Paul Ragueneau on the destruction of Wendake, 1649-1651 / Zachary Yuzwa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 19, 2021).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Brill's companion to classics in the early Americas

ISBN:

900446865X

9789004468658

Publisher Number:

99991193130

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.