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.
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