Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000
ISBN-13:
9780715636732
ISBN-10:
0715636731
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Christopher Stray, Stephen Harrison, Sheila Murnaghan, Amanda Wrigley, Deborah Roberts, Elizabeth Vandiver, Lorna Hardwick, Leanne Hunnings, Ruth Hazel
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Bristol Classical Press
Format:
Hardcover
208 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780715636732
ISBN-10:
0715636731
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Christopher Stray, Stephen Harrison, Sheila Murnaghan, Amanda Wrigley, Deborah Roberts, Elizabeth Vandiver, Lorna Hardwick, Leanne Hunnings, Ruth Hazel
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Bristol Classical Press
Format:
Hardcover
208 pages
Category:
Writing
,
Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
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Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000 (ISBN-13: 9780715636732 and ISBN-10: 0715636731), written by authors
Christopher Stray, Stephen Harrison, Sheila Murnaghan, Amanda Wrigley, Deborah Roberts, Elizabeth Vandiver, Lorna Hardwick, Leanne Hunnings, Ruth Hazel, was published by Bristol Classical Press in 2007.
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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.
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