Remaking the Classics

by Stephen J. Harrison, Christopher Stray, Amanda Wrigley, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715636731
• ISBN13: 9780715636732
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"