Apuleius in European literature : Cupid and Psyche since 1650 / Stephen Harrison and Regine May.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, S. J., author.

May, Regine, 1971- author.

Series:

Classical presences.

Oxford scholarship online.

Classical presences

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apuleius--Influence.

Apuleius.

Cupid and Psyche (Tale) in literature.

Cupid and Psyche (Tale) in art.

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This incisive entry in the 'Classical Presences' series explores the afterlife and influence of Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche in European literature and art from 1650 to the present.

Contents:

Intro

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

1. Introduction

1. Apuleius: Life and Writings

2. The Cupid and Psyche Story in the Latin Original

3. The Literary Sources and Interpretation of the Cupid and Psyche Story

4. The Reception of Cupid and Psyche in European Culture to 1650: A Brief Outline

5. Selecting the Material

2. Cupid and Psyche in France, 1650-1815

1. Introduction: From Italy to France

2. Jean de La Fontaine, Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon (1669)

3. Psyche on the Stage in the 1670s: France and England

4. La Fontaine's Legacy-the Querelle and 'Beauty and the Beast'

5. Conclusion

3. Cupid and Psyche in Germany, 1750-1850

2. From French Courts to German Bourgeoisie

3. Translations and Adaptations

4. Cupid and Psyche as a Romantic Fairy Tale

5. The Anacreontics

6. Wieland's Psyches

7. Herder and his Circle: Sturm und Drang and Classicism

8. The Brothers Grimm and the German Fairy Tale

9. The Soul as Myth: Antiquarianism and Philology

10. Epics of the Soul

11. Goethe's 'Beautiful Souls': Schöne Seelen

12. Coming Full Circle: Psyche Novels

13. Drama and Opera

14. Conclusions

4. Cupid and Psyche in English Romanticism and After

1. Introduction: Psyche in English Romanticism

2. Hudson Gurney, Cupid and Psyche

3. William Blake

4. Thomas Love Peacock, Rhododaphne

5. Mary Tighe, Psyche or the Legend of Love

6. John Keats

7. Further Female Poets: Hemans and L.E.L.

8. Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, and Moore

9. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10. Conclusion

5. Cupid and Psyche and the Victorians

2. Psyche in Victorian Verse

3. C&amp

P and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

4. Conclusion.

6. Cupid and Psyche, Decadence, and Fairy Tales, 1885-1905

2. Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean (1885)

3. Continental Links: Huysmans, D'Annunzio, Couperus

4. Fairy Tales, Folktale Analysis, and Retelling for Children: Andrew and Nora Lang

7. Cupid and Psyche in English since 1900

2. Louis MacNeice, 'Cupid and Psyche' (1944)

3. C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces (1956)

4. Francis Warner, Perennia (1962)

5. James Merrill, 'From the Cupola' (1966)

6. A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990) and Morpho Eugenia (1992)

7. Cupid and Psyche and Female Poets

8. Peter Oswald, The Golden Ass (2002)

9. Psyche in Modern Opera

8. Epilogue

Ongoing Receptions and New Audiences

Appendix: Images from Art Linked with Cupid and Psyche

A. Specific Links for Chapters 1-6

B. General Collections of Material

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 8, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-195398-9

0-19-267758-6

0-19-267757-8

OCLC:

1416892134