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Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Notes on Contributors 11 1 Introduction 14 2 Thinking with Classical Reception: Critical Distance, Critical Licence, Critical Amnesia? 26 3 Daphnis Transformed: Aphra Behn’s Politics of Translation 38 4 Local Engagements with Ancient Greek Vases in Ottoman and Revolutionary Greece, c. 1800–1833 48 5 The Hand That Shook the World: Daniel Dunglas Home’s Disembodied Classics 72 6 Picturing Antiquity: Photography, Performance and Julia Margaret Cameron 85 7 High Culture in Low Company? The Reception of Ancient ‘Homosexuality’ in the Pornographic The Sins of the Cities of the Plain 101 8 The Caribbean Socrates: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Mexican Ateneo de la Juventud 114 9 Beyond the Limits of Art and War Trauma: David Jones’s ‘In Parenthesis’ 128 10 Classics Down the Mineshaft: A Buried History 149 11 Extreme Classicisms: Jorge Luis Borges 170 12 The Costly Fabric of Conservatism: Classical References in Contemporary Public Culture 184 Notes 197 Bibliography 245 Index 267

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Author
Edmund Richardson
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Published
2020
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction

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