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Childhood and the Classics

Britain and America, 1850-1965

By: Sheila Murnaghan,Deborah H. Roberts

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Childhood and the Classics

Britain and America, 1850-1965

By: Sheila Murnaghan,Deborah H. Roberts

The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the ways in which children encountered the world of ancient Greece and Rome in Britain and the United States over a century-long period beginning in the 1850s, as well as adults' literary responses to their own childhood encounters with antiquity. Rather than discussing the role of classics in education, it focuses on books read for enjoyment, and on two genres of children's literature in particular: the myth collection and the historical novel. The tradition of myths retold as children's stories is traced in the work of writers and illustrators from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Kingsley to Roger Lancelyn Green and Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, while the discussion of historical fiction focuses particularly on the roles of nationality and gender in the construction of an ancient world for modern children. The book concludes with an investigation of the connections between childhood and antiquity made by writers for adults, including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. Recognition of the fundamental role in children's literature of adults' ideas about what children want or need is balanced throughout by attention to the ways in which child readers have made such works their own. The formative experiences of antiquity discussed throughout help to explain why despite growing uncertainty about the appeal of antiquity to modern children, the classical past remains perennially interesting and inspiring.

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Oxford University Press

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0191091952

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9780191091957

Remaking the Classics

Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000

By: Christopher Stray,Lorna Hardwick,Amanda Wrigley,Deborah Roberts,Elizabeth Vandiver,Leanne Hunnings,Ruth Hazel,Sheila Murnaghan,Stephen Harrison

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Remaking the Classics

Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000

By: Christopher Stray,Lorna Hardwick,Amanda Wrigley,Deborah Roberts,Elizabeth Vandiver,Leanne Hunnings,Ruth Hazel,Sheila Murnaghan,Stephen Harrison

This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for children, and those in which childhood and memories of childhood are informed by antiquity; and also by a multi-genre case study of a highly unusual subject, Spartacus. "Remaking the Classics" also goes beyond books to dramatic performance, and beyond the theatre to radio - a medium of enormous power and influence from the 1920s to the 1960s, whose role in the reception of classics is largely unexplored. The variety of genres and of media considered in the book is balanced both by the focus on Britain in a specific time period, and by an overlap of subject-matter between chapters: the three chapters on twentieth-century drama, for example, range from performance strategies to post-colonial contexts.The book thus combines the consolidation of a field with an attempt to push it in new and exciting directions.

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166

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A&C Black

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1472538609

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9781472538604

Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives

By: Deborah Simonton

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Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives

By: Deborah Simonton

The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be seen in the numerous buildings named after the luminaries of the period - Adam Smith, David Hume, William Robertson - the endorsement of Robert Burns as the national poet/hero, the preservation of the Culloden battlefield as a tourist attraction, and the physical geographies of its major towns. Yet, while it is a century that remains central to modern constructions of national identity, it is a period associated with men. Until recently, the history of women in eighteenth-century Scotland, with perhaps the honourable exception of Flora McDonald, remained unwritten. Over the last decade however, research on women and gender in Scotland has flourished and we have an increasingly full picture of women's lives at all social levels across the century. As a result, this is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we know about Scottish women during the eighteenth century, to ask how their history affects the traditional narratives of the period, and to reflect on the implications for a national history of Scotland and Scottish identity. Divided into three sections, covering women's intimate, intellectual and public lives, this interdisciplinary volume offers articles on women's work, criminal activity, clothing, family, education, writing, travel and more. Applying tools from history, art anthropology, cultural studies, and English literature, it draws on a wide-range of sources, from the written to the visual, to highlight the diversity of women's experiences and to challenge current male-centric historiographies.

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284

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Routledge

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1134774923

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9781134774920

The Politics of Vaccination

Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1874

By: Deborah Brunton

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The Politics of Vaccination

Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1874

By: Deborah Brunton

A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland during the nineteenth century.

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272

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University Rochester Press

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1580460364

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9781580460361

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 1

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

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Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 1

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040244033

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Gender in the European Town

Ancien Regime to the Modern

By: Deborah Simonton

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Gender in the European Town

Ancien Regime to the Modern

By: Deborah Simonton

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and examines how gender was implicated and imbricated in those changes. As places which fostered and disseminated key social, economic, political and cultural developments, towns were central to the creation of gendered identities and the transmission of ideas across local, national and transnational boundaries. From 1650 to 2000, towns grew rapidly and responded to the needs for new infrastructures, physical reconfiguration and ideas of citizenship. Gender relations vary over space and time and are continually altering; such variation underlines the need for a thorough non- or even anti-essentialism. Drawing primarily on three themes of economy, civic identity and uses of space, the volume shows that urban development, and responses to it, is not gender neutral and thus argues for the fundamental importance of a gendered perspective. Gender in the European Town is a useful resource for all students and scholars interested in urban history and its interaction with gender from 1650 to the present.

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462

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1000820149

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9781000820140

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

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Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

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1040247032

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In Extremis

The Life of Laura Riding

By: Deborah Baker

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In Extremis

The Life of Laura Riding

By: Deborah Baker

In Extremis is hte first major biography of a major 20th century modernist.

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510

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iUniverse

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0595140416

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9780595140411

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

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Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5

By: Alysa Levene,Steven King,Alannah Tomkins,Thomas Nutt,Peter King,Deborah A Symonds,Lisa Zunshine

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290

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1040244106

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A History of European Women's Work

1700 to the Present

By: Deborah Simonton

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A History of European Women's Work

1700 to the Present

By: Deborah Simonton

The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's Work, Deborah Simonton draws together recent research and methodological developments to take an overview of trends in women's work across Europe from the so-called pre-industrial period to the present. Taking the role of gender and class in defining women's labour as a central theme, Deborah Simonton compares and contrasts the pace of change between European countries, distinguishing between Europe-wide issues and local developments.

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Routledge

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1134936788

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Book's by Deborah Mitchison

Childhood and the Classics

Childhood and the Classics

Remaking the Classics

Remaking the Classics

Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

The Politics of Vaccination

The Politics of Vaccination

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 1

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 1

Gender in the European Town

Gender in the European Town

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2

In Extremis

In Extremis

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5

Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 5

A History of European Women's Work

A History of European Women's Work

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