English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650

基本信息

Edited by：Anna-Maria Hartmann

Publisher：Oxford University Press

Published：01 May 2018

Language：English

Format Hardback：296 pages

ISBN10：0198807708

ISBN13：9780198807704

Weight：500 g

Dimensions：148 x 223 x 24（mm）

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

希腊罗马神话及其接受是欧洲文艺复兴的核心，而神话——收集并解释古代神话的文本——被认为是任何文学读者不可或缺的伴侣。尽管这种体裁很重要，但英国神话并没有获得持续的批评关注，很大程度上是因为他们被错误地认为只是欧洲神话的复制品。这一卷主要讲英国神话由斯蒂芬·巴曼、亚伯拉罕·弗朗斯、弗朗西斯·培根、亨利·雷诺兹和亚历山大·罗斯于1577年至1647年间撰写:它将他们的文本置于更广阔的欧洲语境中，以揭示他们独特的英语体裁，也揭示了神话在这一时期更广泛的文化中发挥的重要作用，不仅影响文学生活、自然哲学和诗学，而且还影响宗教冲突和内战政治。通过这样做，它第一次证明了，古典神话对于英国文艺复兴及其文学文化的研究具有相当大的解释性价值，以及早期现代英国回答了一个我们今天仍然觉得迷人的问题:神话是什么?

Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English mythographies have not gained sustained critical attention, largely because they have been wrongly considered mere copies of their European counterparts. This volume focuses on the English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647 by Stephen Batman, Abraham Fraunce, Francis Bacon, Henry Reynolds, and Alexander Ross: it places their texts into a wider, European context to reveal their unique English take on the genre and also unfolds the significant role myth played in the broader culture of the period, influencing not only literary life, natural philosophy and poetics, but also religious conflicts and Civil War politics. In doing so it demonstrates, for the first time, the considerable explanatory value classical mythology holds for the study of the English Renaissance and its literary culture in particular, and how early modern England answered a question we still find fascinating today: what is myth?

作者简介

安娜-玛丽亚·哈特曼博士，剑桥大学三一学院英语讲师。她曾担任牛津大学圣体克里斯蒂学院(Corpus Christi College)英语文学系讲师，并于2012年至2016年期间担任基督教堂(Christ Church)希腊神话研究克里斯托弗·塔(Christopher Tower)初级研究员。她在剑桥大学三一学院完成了英语博士学位。她的研究重点是古代神话的接受复兴。

Dr Anna-Maria Hartmann is a Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. She was previously a Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and also held the post of Christopher Tower Junior Research Fellow in Greek Mythology at Christ Church between 2012 and 2016. She completed her doctorate in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on the reception of ancient mythology in the Renaissance.