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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feile Tomes, Maya, editor.

Goldwyn, Adam J., editor.

Duquès, Matthew E., editor.

Series:

Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 21.

Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--Classical influences.

Literature, Modern.

America--Civilization--Classical influences.

America.

America--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

Brill's Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Roman classical receptions across the western hemisphere from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together fifteen essays by scholars working at the intersection of Classics and all aspects of Americanist studies, this unique collection examines how Hispanophone, Lusophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and/or Indigenous individuals engaged with Greco-Roman literary cultures and materials. By coming at the matter from a multilingual transhemispheric perspective, it disrupts prevailing accounts of classical reception in the Americas which have typically privileged North over South, Anglophone over non-Anglophone, and the cultural production of hegemonic groups over that of more marginalized others. Instead it offers a fresh account of how Greco-Roman literatures and ideas were in play from Canada to the Southern Cone to the Caribbean, treating classical reception in the early Americas as a dynamic, polyvocal phenomenon which is truly transhemispheric in reach.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Synecdoche in Reverse: America's Transhemispheric Classics

Maya Feile Tomes

1 Utopia Writes Back: José Manuel Peramás on the Limits of Republicanism

Michael Brumbaugh

2 Degenerating the Classical Canon in Brazil: Bernardo Guimarães's Ovidian A Origem do Mênstruo ['The Origin of Menstruation'] (1875)

Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha

3 Heaven and Hell: Classical Rhetoric and Courtly Wit in Early Modern Brazil - The Case of Gregório de Matos

Artur Costrino

4 La Primera Parte del Parnaso Antártico ['The First Part of the Antarctic Parnassus']: Print and the Politics of Translation in Early Peruvian Poetry

Joanne van der Woude

5 Justaque cupidine lucri ardentes ['Burning with a Just Desire for Gain']: A Barbadian Poet Celebrates the Peace of Utrecht

John T. Gilmore

6 Lucianic Dialogues in Colonial Santo Domingo: The Historical Miscellany of Luis Joseph Peguero

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

7 Nahua Latinists: Classical Learning and Indigenous Legacies in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Andrew Laird

8 Romans in Spain and Britain as Models and Anti-Models for New World Encounters

David A. Lupher

9 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

10 "Familiar Commerce": The Classical Origins of John Winthrop's "Modell" of American Affiliation

Ivy Schweitzer

11 Phillis Wheatley's Niobean Poetics

Nicole A. Spigner

12 William Apess and the Athens of America

Matthew Duquès

13 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

14 The Fall of Troy in Old Huronia: The Letters of Paul Ragueneau on the Destruction of Wendake, 1649-1651

Zachary Yuzwa

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46865-X

OCLC:

1253441032

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004468658 DOI