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The Oxford history of classical reception in English literature
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, <2012-2019>
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- volumes <1-5> ; 24 cm
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- 9780199587230, 019958723X, 9780199547555, 0199547556, 9780199219810, 0199219818, 9780199594603, 0199594600, 9780199585106, 0199585105, 9780198859178, 0198859171
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- ocn779529978
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- v. 1. 800-1558 / edited by Rita Copeland. 1. Introduction: England and the classics from the early Middle Ages to early humanism / Rita Copeland ; 2. The curricular classics in the Middle Ages / 3. Experiencing the classics in Medieval education / Marjorie Curry Woods ; 4. The Trivium and the classics / 5. The Quadrivium and natural sciences / Winston Black ; 6. The transmission and circulation of classical literature : libraries and Florilegia / James Willoughby ; 7. Mythography and mythographical collections / Nicolette Zeeman ; 8. Academic prologues to authors / 9. Virgil / Jan M. Ziolkowski ; 10. Ovid and Ovidianism / Suzanne Conklin Akbari ; 11. Lucan / Alfred Hiatt ; 12. Statius / Winthrop Wetherbee ; 13. Trojan itineraries and the matter of Troy / Marilynn Desmond ; 14. Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae / Ian Cornelius ; 15. Moral Philosophy and wisdom literature / Charles F. Briggs ; 16. Historiography and biography from the period of Gildas to Gerald of Wales / Cam Grey ; 17. Prudentius and the late classical epics of Juvencus, Proba, Sedulius, Arator and Avitus / Ad Putter ; 18. John of Salisbury, academic scepticism, and Ciceronian rhetoric / Dallas G. Denery II ; 19. Alliterative poetry and the time of antiquity / Emily Steiner ; 20. Other worlds : Chaucer's classicism / Alastair Minnis ; 21. Gower's Ovids / Andrew Galloway ; 22. John Lydgate and the remaking of classical epic / Robert R. Edwards ; 23. Early humanism in England / Daniel Wakelin ; 24. Survey of Henrician humanism / James Carley and Ágnes Juhász-Ormsby ; 25. John Skelton / David R. Carlson ; 26. Gavin Douglas' Eneados / Nicola Royan ; 27. Finding a vernacular voice : the classical translations of Sir Thomas Wyatt / Cathy Shrank ; 28. The Aeneid translations of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey : the exiled reader's presence / James Simpson ; Select bibliography of ancient sources (including late antiquity and early Christian writings) ; General reference works for reception : libraries, textual transmission, historical sources ; Studies on ancient authors and classical reception ; Medieval : primary sources ; Medieval : secondary sources ; Early humanism : primary sources ; Early humanism : secondary sources --
- v. 2. 1558-1660 / edited by Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie. 1. Introduction / Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie -- Part I: Institutions and contexts. 2. The classics in humanism, education, and scholarship / Peter Mack ; 3. The availability of the classics : readers, writers, translation, performance / Stuart Gillespie ; 4. Classical rhetoric in English / 5. The classics in literary criticism / Gavin Alexander ; 6. Classicism and Christianity / Mark Vessey ; 7. Women writers and the classics / Jane Stevenson ; 8. Cultural contexts: a. Politics and nationalism / Curtis Perry, b. Sexuality and desire / Cora Fox, c. Literary careers / Patrick Cheney, d. Fame and immortality / Philip Hardie -- Part II: Genre. 9. Pastoral and Georgic / Helen Cooper ; 10. Epic poetry / Philip Hardie ; 11. Elizabethan minor epic / Lynn Enterline ; 12. The epistolary tradition / William Fitzgerald ; 13. Prose romance / Helen Moore ; 14. Elegy, hymn, epithalamium, ode : some Renaissance reinterpretations / Roland Greene ; 15. Complaint, epigram, and satire / Susanna Braund ; 16. Tragedy / Gordone Braden ; 17. Comedy / Bruce R. Smith ; 18. Tragicomedy / Tanya Pollard ; 19. Historiography and biography / Bart Van Es ; 20. Discursive and speculative writing / Reid Barbour and Claire Preston -- Part III: Authors. 21. Homer / Jessica Wolfe ; 22. Plato / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy ; 23. Virgil and Ovid / Maggie Kilgour ; 24. Horace / Victoria Moul (with a contribution by Charles Martindale) ; 25. Spenser / Richard A. McCabe ; 26. Marlowe / Charles Martindale ; 27. Shakespeare / Colin Burrow ; 28. Jonson / Sean Keilen ; 29. Early Milton / Thomas Luxon ; Classical reception in English literature, 1558-1660 : an annotated bibliography / Craig Kallendorf --
- v. 3. 1660-1790 / edited by David Hopkins and Charles Martindale. 1. Introduction / David Hopkins and Charles Martindale ; 2. The place of classics in education and publishing / Penelope Wilson ; 3. Milton's classicism / Charles Martindale ; 4. Dryden's classicism / Tom Mason ; 5. Latin epic : Virgil, Lucan, and others / Paul Davis ; 6. Homer / David Hopkins ; 7. Ovid / 8. Roman satire and epigram / Dan Hooley ; 9. Horatianiasm / Robin Sowerby ; 10. Pastoral and Georgic / Juan Christian Pellicer ; 11. Travesty and mock-epic / Fred Parker ; 12. The classical critics / Philip Smallwood ; 13. Didactic and scientific poetry / Martin Priestman ; 14. The epistolary tradition / Bruce Redford ; 15. The classics and eighteenth-century theatre / Malcolm Kelsall ; 16. The fabular tradition / Jayne Lewis ; 17. Women writers and the classics / 18. Lyric and elegy / David Fairer ; 19. The classics in the English novel / Henry Power ; 20. The ancient historians in Britain / Philip Hicks ; 21. Discursive and philosophical prose / Adam Potkay ; 22. Samuel Johnson's classicism / Freya Johnston -- Classical reception in English literature, 1660-1790 : an annotated bibliography / Victoria Moul --
- v. 4. 1790-1880 / edited by Norman Vance and Jennifer Wallace. Introduction / Norman Vance and Jennifer Wallace -- Context and genres. 1. Classical authors, 1790-1880 / Norman Vance ; 2. 'The principle of the daguerreotype' : translation from the classics / John Talbot ; 3. Education and reading / Christopher Stray ; 4. Political writing and class / Edmund Richardson ; 5. Barbarism and civilization : political writing, history, and empire / Phiroze Vasunia ; 6. American literature and classical consciousness / Paul Giles ; 7. Myth and religion / 8. Art, aesthetics, and archaeological poetics / Jonah Siegel ; 9. 'Greek under the trees' : classical reception and gender / Jennifer Wallace ; 10. The novel / 11. Shakespearean Sophocles : (re)-discovering and performing Greek tragedy in the nineteenth century / Fiona Macintosh --
- Authors. 12. William Wordsworth / James Castell ; 13. Coleridge : the reception and transmission of classical learning / J. C. C. Mays ; 14. Walter Savage Landor and the classics / Adam Roberts ; 15. The unexpected Latinist : Byron and the Roman muse / Timothy Webb ; 16. The younger romantics : Leigh Hunt, Keats, and Shelley / Jennifer Wallace ; 17. Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Isobel Hurst ; 18. Matthew Arnold / Nicholas Shrimpton ; 19. Arthur Hugh Clough / 20. Translating tragedy : Robert Browning's Greek decade / Yopie Prins ; 21. Tennyson / A. A. Markley ; 22. William Morris / Stephen Harrison ; 23. George Eliot / Shanyn Fiske ; 24. Thomas Hardy / Ralph Pite ; 25. Swinburne / Charlotte Ribeyrol ; 26. Towards the Fin de Siècle : Walter Pater and John Addington Symonds / Stefano Evangelista -- Classical reception in English literature, 1790-1880 : an annotated bibliography / Norman Vance --
- v. 5. After 1880 / edited by Kenneth Haynes. 1. Introduction: Classical Reception in English Literature after 1880 : The Modern Spiritual Practice of Antiquity / Kenneth Haynes ; 2. Classics in Education after 1880 / Isobel Hurst ; 3. Classics in Translation after 1880 / Stephanie Nelson ; 4. Pater and the Classics / Elizabeth Prettejohn ; 5. Decadence and the Classical Tradition / Stefano Evangelista ; 6. Hardy, Gissing, and Kipling / Andrew Radford ; 7. Classics, Empire, and War / Elizabeth Vandiver ; 8. Myth and Ritual / Cathy Gere ; 9. W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot / P. Th. M. G. Liebregts ; 10. Changing Ideas of Pastoral / Terry Gifford ; 11. Forster and Woolf / J. H. D. Scourfield ; 12. Ulysses: Joyce's Museum of Homers / Ron Bush ; 13. Ezra Pound / 14. 'Euripides Our Contemporary' : Dialogues between Shakespeare and the Greeks / Fiona Macintosh ; 15. 'Learned Poetry' and the Classics : Three Case Studies / David Wray ; 16. Auden and Lowell at the End of the Classics / John Talbot ; 17. Postwar North American Classics / Andre Furlani ; 18. Classics and Poetry in England after 1960 / Stephen Harrison ; 19. Classics and Irish Poetry after 1960 / Florence Impens ; 20. Eccentric Classics : The Fiction of Guy Davenport / 21. Subaltern Classics in Anti- and Post-Colonial Literatures in English / Emily Greenwood -- Classical Reception in English Literature, after 1880 : A Bibliography / Gregory Baker
Subjects
- English literature -- Classical influences.
- Classical literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
- Classical literature -- Appreciation -- English-speaking countries.
- American literature -- Classical influences.
- Caribbean literature (English) -- Classical influences.
- Classical literature -- Influence.
- Greece -- In literature.
- Rome -- In literature.