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050 4 $aPA3459$b.N57 2013
100 1 $aNisbet, Gideon.
245 10 $aGreek epigram in reception :$bJ.A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and the invention of desire, 1805-1929 /$cGideon Nisbet.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2013.
300 $a389 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aClassical presences
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [345]-381) and index.
520 8 $aThis book is a chronological survey of the reception history of the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine collection of ancient Greek short poems known as epigrams. Tracing the strange evolution of the Greek Anthology from the early nineteenth century to the years after the first World War, the volume analyses the complex webs of rhetoric that are spun as writers and translators bring their different agendas to bear on the Anthology's text, pruning it to meet their needs. As so little was known about its poets, and because it stood for the 'Anthology' of the Greeks and their culture, the text became the battleground during the 1870s-90s on which normative and dissident interpretations of Ancient Greece were fought out. An emergent mass readership became caught between opposing and rhetorically loaded accounts, casting the Anthology and thus the ancient race on whom the British were supposed to be modelling themselves as patriots and doting spouses or lovers of male Beauty, like the Decadent sensation Oscar Wilde.
505 0 $aPart 1. The descent from Olympus -- The miscellanies of Bland and Merivale -- Three mid-century 'Anthologies' -- Part 2. Wilde's meleager -- "The most precious relic" -- "The true Liber Amoris at last" -- Part 3. "The Book of Greek life" -- Responses to Symonds -- Reed and girdle: The anthology in the 1920s.
630 00 $aGreek anthology.
650 0 $aEpigrams, Greek$xAppreciation$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xGreek influences.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aSymonds, John Addington,$d1807-1871.
600 10 $aWilde, Oscar,$d1854-1900.
650 0 $aDesire in literature.
830 0 $aClassical presences.
830 0 $aClassical presences.
899 $a415_565471
988 $a20131213
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