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

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Stray, Christopher
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duckworth, 2007.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for children, and those in which childhood and memories of childhood are informed by antiquity; and also by a multi-genre case study of a highly unusual subject, Spartacus. ""Remaking the Classics"" also
Physical Description:1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index.
ISBN:9781472538604
1472538609
9781472538611
1472538617