Remaking the classics : literature, genre and media in Britain 1800-2000 /

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This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published te...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stray, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duckworth, 2007.
Temas:
1800-1999
Classicism > Great Britain.
English literature > 19th century > Classical influences.
English literature > 20th century > Classical influences.
Classicisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Influence ancienne.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Influence ancienne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Classicism
English literature > Classical influences
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Spartacus in nineteenth-century England: proletarian, Pole and Christ / Leanne Hunnings
  • 2. Some Victorian versions of Greco-Roman epic / Stephen Harrison
  • 3. Classics in British poetry of the First World War / Elizabeth Vandiver
  • 4. Stages of imagination: Greek plays on BBC Radio / Amanda Wrigley
  • 5. Torn bodies: sparagmos and female power on the late twentieth-century British stage / Ruth Hazel
  • 6. Decolonising the mind? Contoversial productions of Greek drama in post-colonial England, Scotland and Ireland / Lorna Hardwick
  • 7. Reconstructed pasts: Rome and Britain, child and adult in Kipling's Puck of Pooh's Hill and Rosemary Sutcliff's historical fiction / Deborah H. Roberts
  • 8. The memorable past: antiquity and girlhood in the works of Mary Butts and Naomi Mitchison / Sheila Murnaghan.

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