English Translation and Classical Reception Towards a New Literary History

by Gillespie, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9781405199018
• ISBN10: 1405199016
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present. The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical reception Draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of English literary translation from the early Renaissance to the present Argues for a remapping of English literary history which would take proper account of the currently neglected history of classical translation, from Chaucer to the present Offers a widely ranging chronological analysis of English translation from ancient literatures Previously little-known, unknown, and sometimes suppressed translated texts are recovered from manuscripts and explored in terms of their implications for English literary history and for the interpretation of classical literature

Author Biography

Stuart Gillespie is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. His recent publications include Shakespeare’s Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources (2001), Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture, edited with Neil Rhodes (2006), and The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, edited with Philip Hardie (2007). He edits the journal Translation and Literature and is co-editor of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English series.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Making the Classics belong: A Historical Introduction

Creative Translation

English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition

Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare's Influence on Plutarch

Transformative Translation: Dryden's Horatian Ode

Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon

Evidence for an alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century

Receiving Wordsworth, receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's Suppressed Eighth Satire

The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century

'Oddity and struggling dumbness': Ted Hughes's Homer

Afterword

Works Cited

Index of Ancient Authors and Passages

General Index

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