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Title Remaking the classics : literature, genre and media in Britain 1800-2000 / edited by Christopher Stray.

Publication Info. London : Duckworth, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index.
Contents 1. Spartacus in nineteenth-century England: proletarian, Pole and Christ / Leanne Hunnings -- 2. Some Victorian versions of Greco-Roman epic / Stephen Harrison -- 3. Classics in British poetry of the First World War / Elizabeth Vandiver -- 4. Stages of imagination: Greek plays on BBC Radio / Amanda Wrigley -- 5. Torn bodies: sparagmos and female power on the late twentieth-century British stage / Ruth Hazel -- 6. Decolonising the mind? Contoversial productions of Greek drama in post-colonial England, Scotland and Ireland / Lorna Hardwick -- 7. Reconstructed pasts: Rome and Britain, child and adult in Kipling's Puck of Pooh's Hill and Rosemary Sutcliff's historical fiction / Deborah H. Roberts -- 8. Memorable past: antiquity and girlhood in the works of Mary Butts and Naomi Mitchison / Sheila Murnaghan.
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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.
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Subject Classicism -- Great Britain.
Classicism.
Great Britain.
English literature -- 19th century -- Classical influences.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject English literature -- 20th century -- Classical influences.
Chronological Term 20th century
1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Stray, Christopher.
Other Form: Print version: Remaking the classics : literature, genre and media in Britain 1800-2000. London : Duckworth, 2007 xi, 153 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 9780715636732 (OCoLC)166626366 (OCoLC)145554591
ISBN 9781472538604 (electronic book)
1472538609 (electronic book)
9780715636732
0715636731 (hardback)