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Author:   Victoria Moul (King's College London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9781108820066

ISBN 10:   1108820069
Pages:   516
Publication Date:   28 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: neo-Latin literature Victoria Moul; Part I. Ideas and Assumptions: 1. Conjuring with the classics: neo-Latin poets and their pagan familiars Yasmin Haskell; 2. Neo-Latin literature and the vernacular Tom Deneire; 3. How the young man should study Latin poetry: neo-Latin literature and early modern education Sarah Knight; 4. The republic of letters: across Europe and beyond Françoise Waquet; Part II. Poetry and Drama: 5. Epigram Robert Cummings; 6. Elegy L. B. T. Houghton; 7. Lyric Julia Haig Gaisser; 8. Verse letters Gesine Manuwald; 9. Verse satire Sari Kivistö; 10. Pastoral Estelle Haan; 11. Didactic poetry Victoria Moul; 12. Epic Paul Gwynne; 13. Drama Nigel Griffin; Part III. Prose: 14. Approaching neo-Latin prose as literature Terence Tunberg; 15. Epistolary writing Jacqueline Glomski; 16. Oratory and declamation Marc van der Poel; 17. Dialogue Virginia Cox; 18. Shorter prose fiction David Marsh; 19. Longer prose fiction Stefan Tilg; 20. Prose satire Joel Relihan; 21. Historiography Felix Mundt; Part IV. Working with Neo-Latin Literature: 22. Using manuscripts and early printed books Craig Kallendorf; 23. Editing neo-Latin literature Keith Sidwell.

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Victoria Moul is Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at King's College London. She is a leader in the field of early modern Latin and English literature, with wide-ranging publications including articles on neo-Latin elegy, lyric and didactic poetry and Milton, Jonson, Donne and Cowley, as well as the reception of Horace, Pindar and Virgil. Her previous publications include Jonson, Horace, and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge, 2010) and a translation of George Herbert's complete Latin poetry with introduction and notes, George Herbert: Complete Poems (2015, edited with John Drury). She is working on an anthology of neo-Latin verse, with commentary, and on a major book on the interaction between neo-Latin and English poetry in Britain from 1550 to 1700.

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