Remaking the classics : literature, genre and media in Britain 1800-2000 /
Remaking the classics : literature, genre and media in Britain 1800-2000 /
edited by Christopher Stray.
- 1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index.
Spartacus in nineteenth-century England: proletarian, Pole and Christ / Some Victorian versions of Greco-Roman epic / Classics in British poetry of the First World War / Stages of imagination: Greek plays on BBC Radio / Torn bodies: sparagmos and female power on the late twentieth-century British stage / Decolonising the mind? Contoversial productions of Greek drama in post-colonial England, Scotland and Ireland / Reconstructed pasts: Rome and Britain, child and adult in Kipling's Puck of Pooh's Hill and Rosemary Sutcliff's historical fiction / The memorable past: antiquity and girlhood in the works of Mary Butts and Naomi Mitchison / Leanne Hunnings -- Stephen Harrison -- Elizabeth Vandiver -- Amanda Wrigley -- Ruth Hazel -- Lorna Hardwick -- Deborah H. Roberts -- Sheila Murnaghan. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9781472538604 (e-book)
Classicism--Great Britain.
English literature--Classical influences.--19th century
English literature--Classical influences.--20th century
Electronic books.
PR468.C6.R46 2007
820.9142
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index.
Spartacus in nineteenth-century England: proletarian, Pole and Christ / Some Victorian versions of Greco-Roman epic / Classics in British poetry of the First World War / Stages of imagination: Greek plays on BBC Radio / Torn bodies: sparagmos and female power on the late twentieth-century British stage / Decolonising the mind? Contoversial productions of Greek drama in post-colonial England, Scotland and Ireland / Reconstructed pasts: Rome and Britain, child and adult in Kipling's Puck of Pooh's Hill and Rosemary Sutcliff's historical fiction / The memorable past: antiquity and girlhood in the works of Mary Butts and Naomi Mitchison / Leanne Hunnings -- Stephen Harrison -- Elizabeth Vandiver -- Amanda Wrigley -- Ruth Hazel -- Lorna Hardwick -- Deborah H. Roberts -- Sheila Murnaghan. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9781472538604 (e-book)
Classicism--Great Britain.
English literature--Classical influences.--19th century
English literature--Classical influences.--20th century
Electronic books.
PR468.C6.R46 2007
820.9142