Classicising Crisis (eBook, ePUB)

The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
Redaktion: Goff, Barbara; Simpson, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book an international team of contributors - working across Classics, History, Politics, and English - address a range of revolutionary transformations in England, America, France, Italy, and Russia, all of which were accorded the classical treatment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351115483
• Artikelnr.: 59869852

Autorenporträt

Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of Your Secret Language: Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa (2013). With Michael Simpson she is co-author of Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone and Dramas of the African Diaspora (2007) and co-editor of Thinking the Olympics: the Classical Tradition and the Modern Games (2011). Michael Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is currently completing a single-authored book titled Lost Plots: Romanticism and the Distractions of Reading, and is collaborating with Barbara Goff on a major project called Working Classics: Greece, Rome, and the British Labour Movement.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson 1. 'Innovation' and
revolution in seventeenth-century England Rachel Foxley 2. Classicising the
American Crisis, 1760-1789 Nicholas Cole 3. Virtue, Representation, and the
Politics of Ancient Greek History during the 1790s in Britain Sebastian
Robins 4. The Night of the Statues: revolution and classicism in Alejo
Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World Adam Lecznar 5. Classicising The
Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century Greece Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and
Vasiliki Misiou 6. 'What's the Roman Republic to me, or I to the Roman
Republic?': Victorian Classicism and the Italian Risorgimento Isobel Hurst
7. Classics, Crisis and the Soviet Experiment to 1939 Henry Stead and Hanna
Paulouskaya 8. Seeking New Classics in a Crisis: Modernity as Ancient
History in German Thought Benjamin Gray 9. Of Minotaurs and Macroeconomics:
Greek myth and common currency Michael Simpson. Index