
Remaking the Classics
Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000
Lorna HardwickStephen HarrisonRuth HazelLeanne HunningsSheila MurnaghanDeborah RobertsChris StrayElizabeth VandiverAmanda Wrigley(Author)
Chris Stray(Editor)
Bristol Classical Press
Published on 13. December 2007
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-7156-3673-2 (ISBN)
Description
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. The variety of genres and of media considered in the book is balanced both by the focus on Britain in a specific time period, and by an overlap of subject-matter between chapters: the three chapters on twentieth-century drama, for example, range from performance strategies to post-colonial contexts.
The book thus combines the consolidation of a field with an attempt to push it in new and exciting directions.
The book thus combines the consolidation of a field with an attempt to push it in new and exciting directions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7156-3673-2 (9780715636732)
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Christopher Stray | Lorna Hardwick | Amanda Wrigley
Remaking the Classics
Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000
E-Book
10/2013
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€167.99
Available for download

Christopher Stray | Lorna Hardwick | Amanda Wrigley
Remaking the Classics
Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000
E-Book
10/2013
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€167.99
Available for download
Persons
Christopher Stray, author and editor of several books on the subject, is the leading historian of English Classics.