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Author:   Kenneth Haynes (Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, Brown University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.216kg
ISBN:  

9780199585106

ISBN 10:   0199585105
Pages:   736
Publication Date:   24 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Frontmatter List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface 1: Kenneth Haynes: Introduction: Classical Reception in English Literature after 1880 - The Modern Spiritual Practice of Antiquity 2: Isobel Hurst: Classics in Education after 1880 3: Stephanie Nelson: Classics in Translation after 1880 4: Elizabeth Prettejohn: Pater and the Classics 5: Stefano Evangelista: Decadence and the Classical Tradition 6: Andrew Radford: Hardy, Gissing, and Kipling 7: Elizabeth Vandiver: Classics, Empire, and War 8: Cathy Gere: Myth and Ritual 9: P. Th. M. G. Liebregts: W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot 10: Terry Gifford: Changing Ideas of Pastoral 11: J. H. D. Scourfield: Forster and Woolf 12: Ron Bush: Ulysses: Joyce's Museum of Homers 13: P. Th. M. G. Liebregts: Ezra Pound 14: Fiona Macintosh: 'Euripides Our Contemporary': Dialogues between Shakespeare and the Greeks 15: David Wray: 'Learned Poetry' and the Classics: Three Case Studies 16: John Talbot: Auden and Lowell at the End of the Classics 17: Andre Furlani: Postwar North American Classics 18: Stephen Harrison: Classics and Poetry in England after 1960 19: Florence Impens: Classics and Irish Poetry after 1960 20: Kenneth Haynes: Eccentric Classics: The Fiction of Guy Davenport 21: Emily Greenwood: Subaltern Classics in Anti- and Post-Colonial Literatures in English Gregory Baker: Classical Reception in English Literature, after 1880: A Bibliography Endmatter Index

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Kenneth Haynes is Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics at Brown University. One of his major areas of study is classical reception in European literature and he has previously co-edited The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Volume 4: 1790-1900 (OUP, 2006) and authored the monograph English Literature and Ancient Languages (OUP, 2003). He also works on translation history, the reception of philosophical texts, and twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry.

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