The Oxford history of classical reception in English literature

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The Oxford history of classical reception in English literature

general editors, David Hopkins and Charles Martindale

Oxford University Press, 2012-

  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3
  • v. 4
  • v. 5

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Publication year based on v. 3

Contents: v. 1. 800-1558 / edited by Rita Copeland. -- v. 2. 1558-1660 / edited by Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie. -- v. 3. 1660-1790 / edited by David Hopkins and Charles Martindale. -- v. 4. 1790-1880 / edited by Norman Vance and Jennifer Wallace. -- v. 5. After 1880 / edited by Kenneth Haynes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780199219810

Description

The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL), of which the present volume is the first to appear, is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have been responded to and refashioned by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. When completed, this 5-volume history will be one of the largest, and potentially most important projects, in the field of classical reception ever undertaken. This third volume covers the years 1660-1790.

Table of Contents

  • PREFACE
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780199547555

Description

The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This second volume, and third to appear in the series, covers the years 1558-1660, and explores the reception of the ancient genres and authors in English Renaissance literature, engaging with the major, and many of the minor, writers of the period, including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Jonson. Separate chapters examine the Renaissance institutions and contexts which shape the reception of antiquity, and an annotated bibliography provides substantial material for further reading.

Table of Contents

  • PART I: INSTITUTIONS AND CONTEXTS
  • PART II: GENRES
  • PART III: AUTHORS
Volume

v. 5 ISBN 9780199585106

Description

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This fifth and final volume in the series, and the last to appear, covers the years from 1880 onwards. Written by leading scholars in such diverse fields as classics, English literature, history, and comparative literature, the chapters provide insights into the role of classical literature in education, translation, and notions of empire, as well as engaging with the works of major writers, including Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, and Seamus Heaney. Besides being an indispensable reference tool, the volume as a whole presents an absorbing history of a complex period which saw the end of the traditional role played by classics in literary education as well as the end of traditional processes of literary canon formation, offering a new map of the terrain and a glimpse at the shape which the reception of antiquity may come to take in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface 1: Kenneth Haynes: Introduction: Classical Reception in English Literature after 1880 - The Modern Spiritual Practice of Antiquity 2: Isobel Hurst: Classics in Education after 1880 3: Stephanie Nelson: Classics in Translation after 1880 4: Elizabeth Prettejohn: Pater and the Classics 5: Stefano Evangelista: Decadence and the Classical Tradition 6: Andrew Radford: Hardy, Gissing, and Kipling 7: Elizabeth Vandiver: Classics, Empire, and War 8: Cathy Gere: Myth and Ritual 9: P. Th. M. G. Liebregts: W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot 10: Terry Gifford: Changing Ideas of Pastoral 11: J. H. D. Scourfield: Forster and Woolf 12: Ron Bush: Ulysses: Joyce's Museum of Homers 13: P. Th. M. G. Liebregts: Ezra Pound 14: Fiona Macintosh: 'Euripides Our Contemporary': Dialogues between Shakespeare and the Greeks 15: David Wray: 'Learned Poetry' and the Classics: Three Case Studies 16: John Talbot: Auden and Lowell at the End of the Classics 17: Andre Furlani: Postwar North American Classics 18: Stephen Harrison: Classics and Poetry in England after 1960 19: Florence Impens: Classics and Irish Poetry after 1960 20: Kenneth Haynes: Eccentric Classics: The Fiction of Guy Davenport 21: Emily Greenwood: Subaltern Classics in Anti- and Post-Colonial Literatures in English Gregory Baker: Classical Reception in English Literature, after 1880: A Bibliography Endmatter Index
Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780199587230

Description

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This first volume, and fourth to appear in the series, covers the years c.800-1558, and surveys the reception and transformation of classical literary culture in England from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the Henrician era. Chapters on the classics in the medieval curriculum, the trivium and quadrivium, medieval libraries, and medieval mythography provide context for medieval reception. The reception of specific classical authors and traditions is represented in chapters on Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, the matter of Troy, Boethius, moral philosophy, historiography, biblical epics, English learning in the twelfth century, and the role of antiquity in medieval alliterative poetry. The medieval section includes coverage of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate, while the part of the volume dedicated to the later period explores early English humanism, humanist education, and libraries in the Henrician era, and includes chapters that focus on the classicism of Skelton, Douglas, Wyatt, and Surrey.

Table of Contents

  • List of Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Curricular Classics in the Middle Ages
  • 3. Experiencing the Classics in Medieval Education
  • 4. The Trivium and the Classics
  • 5. The Quadrivium and Natural Sciences
  • 6. The Transmission and Circulation of Classical Literature: Libraries and Florilegia
  • 7. Mythography and Mythographical Collections
  • 8. Academic Prologues to Authors
  • 9. Virgil
  • 10. Ovid and Ovidianism
  • 11. Lucan
  • 12. Statius
  • 13. Trojan Itineraries and the Matter of Troy
  • 14. Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae
  • 15. Moral Philosophy and Wisdom Literature
  • 16. Historiography and Biography from the Period of Gildas to Gerald of Wales
  • 17. Prudentius and the Late Classical Epics of Juvencus, Proba, Sedulius, Arator and Avitus
  • 18. John of Salisbury, Academic Scepticism, and Ciceronian Rhetoric
  • 19. Alliterative Poetry and the Time of Antiquity
  • 20. Other Worlds: Chaucer's Classicism
  • 21. Gower's Ovids
  • 22. John Lydgate and the Remaking of Classical Epic
  • 23. Early Humanism in England
  • 24. Survey of Henrician Humanism
  • 25. John Skelton
  • 26. Gavin Douglas' Eneados
  • 27. Finding a Vernacular Voice: The Classical Translations of Sir Thomas Wyatt
  • 28. The Aeneid Translations of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: The Exiled Reader's Presence
  • Select Bibliography of Ancient Sources
  • General Reference Works for Reception
  • Studies on Ancient Authors and Classical Reception
  • Medieval: Primary Sources
  • Medieval: Secondary Sources
  • Early Humanism: Primary Sources
  • Early Humanism: Secondary Sources
Volume

v. 4 ISBN 9780199594603

Description

The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This fourth volume, and second to appear in the series, covers the years 1790-1880 and explores romantic and Victorian receptions of the classics. Noting the changing fortunes of particular classical authors and the influence of developments in archaeology, aesthetics and education, it traces the interplay between classical and nineteenth-century perceptions of gender, class, religion, and the politics of republic and empire in chapters engaging with many of the major writers of this period.

Table of Contents

  • CONTEXT AND GENRES
  • AUTHORS

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