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.
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