The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature Vol I 800 1558 1st Edition by Rita Copeland ISBN 019958723X 978-0199587230
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Author: Rita Copeland
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. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes.
OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary ‘periods’, the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of ‘reception’ as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers’ engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers’ own cultural context.
This first volume, and fourth to appear in the series, covers the years c.800-1558, and surveys the reception and transformation of classical literary culture in England from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the Henrician era. Chapters on the classics in the medieval curriculum, the trivium and quadrivium, medieval libraries, and medieval mythography provide context for medieval reception. The reception of specific classical authors and traditions is represented in chapters on Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, the matter of Troy, Boethius, moral philosophy, historiography, biblical epics, English learning in the twelfth century, and the role of antiquity in medieval alliterative poetry. The medieval section includes coverage of Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate, while the part of the volume dedicated to the later period explores early English humanism, humanist education, and libraries in the Henrician era, and includes chapters that focus on the classicism of Skelton, Douglas, Wyatt, and Surrey.
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature Vol I 800 1558 1st Table of contents:
1. Introduction: England and the Classics from the Early Middle Ages to Early Humanism
Medieval Classicism, from the Old English Period to the Later Middle Ages
Early Humanists and the Classics
2. The Curricular Classics in the Middle Ages
3. Experiencing the Classics in Medieval Education
4. The Trivium and the Classicsrita copeland
Grammar and Rhetoric
Dialectic
5. The Quadrivium and Natural Sciences
The Quadrivium in England
Alexander Neckam in a Transitional Age
Natural Philosophy and Aristotelian Science
Medicine
Ancillary Sciences
Conclusion
6. The Transmission and Circulation of Classical Literature: Libraries and Florilegia
7. Mythography and Mythographical Collections
Philosophical and Textual Perspectives on Classical Myth
Medieval Mythologies up to c.1300
Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Mythology
Developments in the Mythographical Collection
Myth in Medieval Narrative Poetry
Images and Idols
8. Academic Prologues to Authors
9. Virgil
10. Ovid and Ovidianism
Medieval Metamorphoses
Arts of Love and Dead Letters
11. Lucan
Dissemination
Poet, Historian; Poet-Historian
‘Familiaris Noster’
Voice and Power
Lucan Mediated
12. Statius
The Thebaid
The Achilleid
Statius in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
The Roman de Thèbes
Statius in Dante
Boccaccio and Chaucer: Theseus and the Teseida
Chaucer and Thebes: Anelida and Arcite, Troilus and Criseyde, the ‘Knight’s Tale’
Gower and the Achilleid
Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes
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
Models of Classical Historiography and Biography
Memories of Classical Historiography and Biography
Manipulations of Classical Historiography and Biography
Conclusions
17. Prudentius and the Late Classical Biblical Epics of Juvencus, Proba, Sedulius, Arator, and Avitus
Juvencus
Proba
Sedulius
Arator
Avitus
Latin and Vernacular Versifications of the Bible
Prudentius
18. John of Salisbury, Academic Scepticism, and Ciceronian Rhetoric
19. Alliterative Poetry and the Time of Antiquity
Introduction
‘Old Livers’
Trajan
20. Other WorldsChaucer’s Classicism
21. Gower’s Ovids
Gower’s Ovidian Debut
Dialogues Among the Ruins of Antiquity: The Confessio amantis
An End to Conversations with Antiquity?
22. John Lydgate and the Remaking of Classical Epic
Epic Traditions
Lydgate’s Epic Project
Authorial Fictions
Doubleness
Epic Contingency
Prudence
Epic Reprised
Remaking and Reception
23. Early Humanism in England
Classical Inheritances
New Acquisitions
Political Reading
Grammatical Reading
New Writing
Grammatical Translation
Political Transferral
24. Survey of Henrician Humanism
Introduction
The New Learning: Revised Models for Teaching the Classics
Education of the Nobility
Reception: A Case Study. Henry VIII and the French Connection
Conclusion: The Role of English
25. John Skelton
26. Gavin Douglas’s Eneados
Life and Historical Contexts
Education and Intellectual Circles
Nature of the Text
The Prologues
The Translation of Virgil
The Thirteenth Book
Circulation and Transmission
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
Late Medieval English Reception of Virgil’s Aeneid: Chaucer, Caxton, Douglas
The Aeneid Translations of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Surrey’s Aeneid Translations: Absence as Exile
Select Bibliography of Ancient Sources (including late antiquity and early Christian writings)
General Reference Works for Reception: Libraries, Textual Transmission, Historical Sources
Studies on Ancient Authors and Classical Reception
Medieval: Primary Sources
Medieval: Secondary Sources
Early Humanism: Primary Sources
Early Humanism: Secondary Sources
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