English translation and classical reception : towards a new literary history /

• Main Author: Gillespie, Stuart, 1958-
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Series: Classical receptions.
• Subjects: Classical literature > Translations into English > History and criticism.; Classical literature > Appreciation > Great Britain > History.; English literature > Classical influences.; Translating and interpreting > Great Britain > History.; LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Classical literature > Appreciation.; Classical literature > Translations into English.; Translating and interpreting.; Great Britain.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 208 pages).
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781444396485; 144439648X; 9781444396508; 1444396501
• DOI: 10.1002/9781444396508

English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present. The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical reception Draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of English literary translation from the early Renaissance to the presentArgues for a remapping of English literary history which would take proper acco.