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Book SynopsisEdmund Richardson is Associate Professor of Classics at Durham University, UK. He has published
Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity (2013), and was named one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers in 2016.
Trade ReviewThis is a thought-provoking, engaging volume. Its scope ensures that it will appeal to a wide range of audiences, while pushing us to think further not only about the reception of classics in contexts that have often been seen as ‘marginal’, ‘peripheral’, or in extremis, but also to see how these ‘edges’ have been altered and re-shaped by those engaging with Graeco-Roman antiquity. * Classics for All *
[The contributors] have enlivened “marginal” voices upon whose winged-words were the Greeks and Romans. The range of these voices is proof that “Classics” has never truly been the exclusive realm of the elite male, despite attempts by the latter to make it so …
Classics in Extremis is an excellent and timely addition to the contemporary scholarly zeitgeist. * Ancient World Magazine *
Table of Contents1. Introduction - Edmund Richardson – Durham University, UK 2. Thinking with classical reception: critical distance, critical licence, critical amnesia? - Lorna Hardwick – Open University, UK 3. Daphnis transformed: Aphra Behn’s politics of translation. - Amanda Klause – Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, USA 4. Local engagements with Ancient Greek vases in Ottoman and Revolutionary Greece, c.1800-1833. - Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis – University of St Andrews, UK 5. The hand that shook the world: Daniel Dunglas Home’s disembodied classics. - Edmund Richardson – Durham University, UK 6. Picturing Antiquity: photography, performance and Julia Margaret Cameron. - Jennifer Wallace – Cambridge University, UK 7. High culture in low company? The reception of ancient ‘homosexuality’ in the pornographic The Sins of the Cities of the Plain: The Recollections of a Mary-Ann. - Jennifer Ingleheart – Durham University, UK 8. The Caribbean Socrates: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Mexican Ateneo de la Juventud. - Rosa Andújar – King’s College, London, UK 9. Beyond the limits of art and war trauma: David Jones ‘In Parenthesis’. - Edith Hall – King’s College, London, UK 10. Classics down the mineshaft: a buried history. - Henry Stead – Open University, UK 11. Extreme Classicisms: Jorge Luis Borges. - Laura Jansen – University of Bristol, UK 12. The costly fabric of conservatism: Classical references in contemporary public culture. - Maarten De Pourcq – Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Bibliography Index
