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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rita Copeland |
ISBN: | 9780199587230 019958723X |
OCLC Number: | 909250779 |
Description: | 758 pages ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | List of Contributors ; Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Curricular Classics in the Middle Ages ; 3. Experiencing the Classics in Medieval Education ; 4. The Trivium and the Classics ; 5. The Quadrivium and Natural Sciences ; 6. The Transmission and Circulation of Classical Literature: Libraries and Florilegia ; 7. Mythography and Mythographical Collections ; 8. Academic Prologues to Authors ; 9. Virgil ; 10. Ovid and Ovidianism ; 11. Lucan ; 12. Statius ; 13. Trojan Itineraries and the Matter of Troy ; 14. Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae ; 15. Moral Philosophy and Wisdom Literature ; 16. Historiography and Biography from the Period of Gildas to Gerald of Wales ; 17. Prudentius and the Late Classical Epics of Juvencus, Proba, Sedulius, Arator and Avitus ; 18. John of Salisbury, Academic Scepticism, and Ciceronian Rhetoric ; 19. Alliterative Poetry and the Time of Antiquity ; 20. Other Worlds: Chaucer's Classicism ; 21. Gower's Ovids ; 22. John Lydgate and the Remaking of Classical Epic ; 23. Early Humanism in England ; 24. Survey of Henrician Humanism ; 25. John Skelton ; 26. Gavin Douglas' Eneados ; 27. Finding a Vernacular Voice: The Classical Translations of Sir Thomas Wyatt ; 28. The Aeneid Translations of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: The Exiled Reader's Presence ; Select Bibliography of Ancient Sources ; General Reference Works for Reception ; Studies on Ancient Authors and Classical Reception ; Medieval: Primary Sources ; Medieval: Secondary Sources ; Early Humanism: Primary Sources ; Early Humanism: Secondary Sources |
Series Title: | The Oxford History of Classical reception in English literature., volume 1 (800-1558); Oxford History of Classical reception in English literature. |
Responsibility: | edited by Rita Copeland. |
Abstract:
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. This first volume, and fourth to appear in the series, covers the years c.800-1558.
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Although targeting medievalists and students of English literature, the discussions concerning transmission and reception are valuable to anyone interested in how English literature adapted and engaged with classical literature. * Kathleen Burt, Classical Journal Online * Volume 1 (800-1558) is the most ambitious to date, aiming for coverage of the classics' impact over a period of some 760 years. * G. Divary, CHOICE * Read more...
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