The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel

by Edited by Tim Whitmarsh

• ISBN13: 9780521865906
• ISBN10: 0521865905
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the later generations that have been and continue to be inspired by them. All the central issues of current scholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class, religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more. Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents, literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity and beyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. This collection will be essential for scholars and students, as well as for others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction into this exhilarating material.

Table of Contents

Introduction Tim Whitmarsh

Contexts

Literary milieux

The history of sexuality

Cultural identity

Class

The World of the Novel

Religion

Travel

Body and text

Time

Politics and spectacles

Form

Genre

Approaching style and rhetoric

Intertextuality

Narrative

Reception

Ancient readers

Byzantine readers

The re-emergence of the novel in Western Europe, 1300-1810

Novels ancient and modern

Modernity and post-modernity

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