Pater the Classicist
Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism
Edited by Charles Martindale, Stefano Evangelista, and Elizabeth Prettejohn
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Edited by Charles Martindale, Emeritus Professor of Latin, University of Bristol, Stefano Evangelista, Associate Professor of English, University of Oxford, and Elizabeth Prettejohn, Professor of History of Art, University of York
Charles Martindale is Emeritus Professor of Latin at the University of Bristol, having previously also held the position of Dean of Arts there. He has written widely on reception issues, reception theory, and the relationship between classical and English poetry, especially Shakespeare and Milton and the afterlives of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. He is the author of Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (CUP, 1993) and Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (OUP, 2005), as well as general editor, with David Hopkins, of the 5-volume Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, four volumes of which have now been published.
Stefano Evangelista is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He works on nineteenth-century English and comparative literature with particular interests in the reception of the classics, Aestheticism and Decadence, and the relationship between literary and visual cultures. He is the author of British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), the editor of The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2010), and the co-editor with Catherine Maxwell of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate (Manchester University Press, 2013).
Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of History of Art at the University of York. She is best known for her work on the art of Victorian Britain (especially Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism), and on the reception of ancient art in the modern world from Winckelmann to the present day. She has been involved in numerous exhibitions, including Alma-Tadema, D. G. Rossetti, and Waterhouse, and has also been published widely across a variety of subjects. Her most recent book is The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso (I. B. Tauris, 2012).
Contributors:
Stephen Bann, CBE, FBA is Emeritus Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol
Lee Behlman is Associate Professor in the English Department at Montclair State University
Bénédicte Coste is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Burgundy, Dijon
Whitney Davis is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at the University of California at Berkeley
Stefano Evangelista is Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford
Robert Fowler, FBA, is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol
Shelley Hales is Senior Lecturer in Classical Art at the University of Bristol
Katherine Harloe is Associate Professor in Classics and Intellectual History at the University of Reading
Isobel Hurst is Lecturer in English at Goldsmith's College, University of London
Duncan Kennedy is Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature and the Theory of Criticism at the University of Bristol
Kurt Lampe is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol
Adam Lee teaches at Sheridan College, Ontario
Charles Martindale is Emeritus Professor of Latin at the University of Bristol
Daniel Orrells is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at King's College, London
Lene Østermark-Johansen is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Languages at the University of Copenhagen
James I. Porter is Chancellor's Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley
Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of History of Art at the University of York, UK
Charlotte Ribeyrol is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British Literature at Paris-Sorbonne University
Richard Rutherford is Professor of Greek and Latin Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford
Caroline Vout is University Reader in Classics and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge
Giles Whiteley is Assistant Professor of English at Stockholm University
