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

by Wrigley, Amanda; Stray, Christopher; Roberts, Deborah; Vandiver, Elizabeth; Hunnings, Leanne; Hardwick, Lorna; Hazel, Ruth; Murnaghan, Sheila; Harrison, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780715636732
• ISBN10: 0715636731
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-13
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press

Summary

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. Contributors: Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Ruth Hazel, Leanne Hunnings, Sheila Murnaghan, Deborah Roberts, Christopher Stray, Elizabeth Vandiver, Amanda Wrigley.

Author Biography

Christopher Stray, author and editor of several books on the subject, is the leading historian of English Classics.

Table of Contents

Spartacus in nineteenth-century England: proletarian, Pole and Christ	p. 1
Some Victorian versions of Greco-Roman epic	p. 21
Classics in British poetry of the First World War	p. 37
Stages of imagination: Greek plays on BBC Radio	p. 57
Torn bodies: sparagmos and female power on the late twentieth-century British stage	p. 75
Decolonising the mind? Contoversial productions of Greek drama in post-colonial England, Scotland and Ireland	p. 89
Reconstructed pasts: Rome and Britain, child and adult in Kipling's Puck of Pooh's Hill and Rosemary Sutcliff's historical fiction	p. 107
The memorable past: antiquity and girlhood in the works of Mary Butts and Naomi Mitchison	p. 125
Bibliography	p. 141
Index	p. 151
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