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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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""Cover""; ""Greek Epigram in Reception: J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and the Invention of Desire, 1805�1929""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. GREECE AND THE VICTORIANS: HERITAGE, MEMORY, TRAUMA""; ""2. CONTESTING MEMORY: THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY AND RADICAL CLASSICS""; ""3. THE ANCIENT GENRE, ITS TRANSMISSION, AND ITS PUBLICATION""; ""4. CHUNKING THE ARCHIVE: EPIGRAM BETWEEN READERSHIPS""; ""5. FRAGMENTARY LIVES: DOMESTICATING THE ANTHOLOGY""; ""6. SEX, ART, AND DEATH: GREEK EPIGRAM IN AND OUT OF POMPEII"" |
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""7. EPIGRAM AS SOCIAL PRACTICE AND POLITICAL STATEMENT""""8. CONTROVERSY AND DISCIPLINE: A STATEMENT OF METHOD""; ""9. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST: HOW THE ANTHOLOGY WAS FRAMED""; ""Part I: The Descent from Olympus""; ""1: The Miscellanies of Bland and Merivale""; ""1. �BE MINE TO WREATHE�: FROM ANTHOLOGY TO MISCELLANY""; ""2. �SOME WITHER�D SHRUB, OF POW�R MALIGN�: PREFACE AND PROLOGUE""; ""3. �A GUILTY EXCESS�: REDEEMING MELEAGER IN THE PREFACE""; ""4. �POOR LOST ELIZA!�: THE ANTHOLOGY IN ENGLISH DRESS""; ""5. REVIEWING THE ANTHOLOGY""; ""6. ANTHOLOGIZING THE REVIEWS"" |
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""7. �A SIFTING COLLECTION�: EPIGRAM�S CHANGING WORLD""""2: Three Mid-Century �Anthologies�""; ""1. �A FAULTY AND INJUDICIOUS ARRANGEMENT�: SIZES AND SCHEMES""; ""2. �FRUSTRATED BY VAGUENESS�: THREE MID-CENTURY HISTORIES OF GREEK LITERATURE""; ""Talfourd, Blomfield, et al., History of Greek Literature (2nd edn, 1850)""; ""Browne, A History of Classical Literature (1851�3)""; ""Mure, A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece (1850�7)""; ""3. �A PUBLIC EVIL�: WELLESLEY�S ANTHOLOGIA POLYGLOTTA (1849)"" |
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""4. AN ETON MESS: GEORGE BURGES�S GREEK ANTHOLOGY (1852)""""5. �A HARD CLOG�: ROBERT MACGREGOR�S GREEK ANTHOLOGY (1864)""; ""6. CONCLUSION""; ""Part II: Wilde�s Meleager""; ""3: �The Most Precious Relic�""; ""1. �THIS WORLD OF PHANTOMS�: ET IN ATTICA, EGO""; ""2. SYMONDS AS OXFORD CLASSICIST""; ""3. AESTHETICS OF DESIRE: SYMONDS, PATER,AND �WINCKELMANN�""; ""4. BEATING THE CURVE: STUDIES, PASTORAL, AND EPIGRAM""; ""5. �THE MOST VALUABLE RELIC�: POETS IN A NEW LANDSCAPE""; ""6. ALPINE CONNOTATIONS 1: THE NORTH FACE OF AESCHYLUS"" |
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""7. THE ANTHOLOGY MEETS ITS PUBLIC""""8. STYLES OF EROS: MELEAGER, STRATO, RUFINUS""; ""9: ALPINE CONTEXTS 2: �THE SOUL GROWS CLOTTED BY CONTAGION�""; ""10. CONCLUSION: ONWARD AND UPWARD""; ""4: �The True Liber Amoris at Last�""; ""1. EPIGRAM FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY: LORD CHARLES NEAVES, THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY (1874)""; ""2. SWELLING AND BURNS: DOCTORING THE ANTHOLOGY""; ""3. TRUTH, BEAUTY, AND THE WORDSWORTHIAN WAY""; ""4. SAME TEXT, DIFFERENT BOOK: THE EDITIONS OF STUDIES""; ""5. WILDE TIMES: STUDIES AND THE FIN DE SI�CLE""; ""6. MELEAGER TAKES THE STAND""; ""7. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL?"" |
| Summary |
Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Greek anthology.
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Greek anthology. |
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Greek anthology. |
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Epigrams, Greek -- Appreciation -- Great Britain -- History.
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Epigrams, Greek. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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English literature -- Greek influences.
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English literature -- Greek influences. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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19th century |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780191639463 (electronic book) |
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019163946X (electronic book) |
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1299999107 (electronic book) |
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9781299999107 (electronic book) |
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