{"product_id":"brill-s-companion-to-classics-in-the-early-americas-9789004468573","title":"Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Roman classical receptions across the western hemisphere from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together fifteen essays by scholars working at the intersection of Classics and all aspects of Americanist studies, this unique collection examines how Hispanophone, Lusophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and\/or Indigenous individuals engaged with Greco-Roman literary cultures and materials. By coming at the matter from a multilingual transhemispheric perspective, it disrupts prevailing accounts of classical reception in the Americas which have typically privileged North over South, Anglophone over non-Anglophone, and the cultural production of hegemonic groups over that of more marginalized others. Instead it offers a fresh account of how Greco-Roman literatures and ideas were in play from Canada to the Southern Cone to the Caribbean, treating classical reception in the early Americas as a dynamic, polyvocal phenomenon which is truly transhemispheric in reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This new collection assembles fourteen essays focussing on how European classical learning was transmitted, resisted, and transformed in Ibero-American, Caribbean, American and Canadian areas between the sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries ... The collection is directed at advanced students and scholars working in the relevant cultural areas, and at classicists everywhere. Editor Maya Feile Tomes seeks to illuminate both the centring of an elite culture in New World writing and academic curricula, and the radical decentring it underwent.'' Germaine Warkentin, in BMCR 2022.07.19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments  List of Figures  Notes on Contributors    Introduction: Synecdoche in Reverse: America’s Transhemispheric Classics   Maya Feile Tomes    1 Utopia Writes Back: José Manuel Peramás on the Limits  of Republicanism   Michael Brumbaugh    2 Degenerating the Classical Canon in Brazil: Bernardo  Guimarães’s Ovidian A Origem do Mênstruo [‘The Origin  of Menstruation’] (1875)   Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha    3 Heaven and Hell: Classical Rhetoric and Courtly Wit in Early Modern Brazil – The Case of Gregório de Matos   Artur Costrino    4 La Primera Parte del Parnaso Antártico [‘The First Part of the  Antarctic Parnassus’]: Print and the Politics of Translation in  Early Peruvian Poetry   Joanne van der Woude    5 Justaque cupidine lucri ardentes [‘Burning with a Just Desire for Gain’]:  A Barbadian Poet Celebrates the Peace of Utrecht   John T. Gilmore    6 Lucianic Dialogues in Colonial Santo Domingo: The Historical Miscellany of Luis Joseph Peguero   Dan-el Padilla Peralta    7 Nahua Latinists: Classical Learning and Indigenous Legacies  in Sixteenth-Century Mexico   Andrew Laird    8 Romans in Spain and Britain as Models and Anti-Models  for New World Encounters   David A. Lupher    9 A New England Underworld: The Necropolitics and Necropoetics  of Katabasis in the Anarchiad (1786–87) and Mock Epics of the  Early U.S. Republic   Adam J. Goldwyn    10 “Familiar Commerce”: The Classical Origins of John Winthrop’s  “Modell” of American Affiliation   Ivy Schweitzer    11 Phillis Wheatley’s Niobean Poetics   Nicole A. Spigner    12 William Apess and the Athens of America   Matthew Duquès    13 Beavers as the Bees of New France: The Beaver’s ‘Allegorical Turn’  in Father François Du Creux’s Historia Canadensis   William M. Barton and Jean-Nicolas Mailloux    14 The Fall of Troy in Old Huronia: The Letters of Paul Ragueneau  on the Destruction of Wendake, 1649–1651   Zachary Yuzwa    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51586055274839,"sku":"9789004468573","price":183.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brill-s-companion-to-classics-in-the-early-americas-9789004468573","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}