Remaking the Classics - Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000 (Hardcover)

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 goes beyond books to dramatic performance, and beyond the theatre to radio - a medium of enormous power and influence from the 1920s to the 1960s, whose role in the reception of classics is largely unexplored. The variety of genres and of media considered in the book is balanced both by the focus on Britain in a specific time period, and by an overlap of subject-matter between chapters: the three chapters on twentieth-century drama, for example, range from performance strategies to post-colonial contexts. The book thus combines the consolidation of a field with an attempt to push it in new and exciting directions.

General

Imprint:	Bristol Classical Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	December 2007
Editors:	Chris Stray
Authors:	Lorna Hardwick • Stephen Harrison • Ruth Hazel • Leanne Hunnings • Sheila Murnaghan • Deborah Roberts • Chris Stray • Elizabeth Vandiver • Amanda Wrigley
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-7156-3673-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Promotions
LSN:	0-7156-3673-1
Barcode:	9780715636732

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