Henry Stead
Biographic Data
| ID | 5664802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry Stead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry |
| FAMILY NAME | Stead |
| SIGNATURE | STEAD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7749-0592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Truth in the Late Foucault
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Clássicos no fundo das minas
Over the course of this text we shall visit several sites of interaction between mineworkers and the ancient Greek and Roman classics. Beyond simply attesting to their existence, assessment of these interactions will cast some light on Graeco-Roman antiquity’s curious appeal to the mineworker of the period. But first I should contextualize this somewhat niche line of inquiry. The research into miner classics was undertaken when working with Edith…
‘Comrade Doris’
From the cracked and humming screen of a hand-winding microfilm reader in suburban Moscow emerged slowly the names and correspondence of several British writers. Some of the names I had hoped to find, others were completely new to me, and one I knew well enough but had never dreamt of finding here. Doris Lessing’s signature struck like lightening from the reels of reports on the state of ‘progressive’ literature in the West.11 Many thanks are due…
The Thucydidean Turn
The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the twentieth century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the ins…
Approaching Classical Reception through the Frame of Social Class
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
Antipodean Antiquities
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Frankenstein and Its Classics
Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth. Presenting twelve new essays intended for students, scholars, and other readers of Mary Shelley’s novel, the volume explores classical receptions in some of Frankenstein’s most important scenes, sources, and adaptations. Not limited to literature, the…
Catullus the Reformer
Chapter 4 focuses on the reception of Catullus by Leigh Hunt. It looks at the attraction of the Cockney School to Catullus’ countercultural style, consisting of his eroticism, intimate sociality, and highly emotive tone. Catullus’ cockney credentials were also exhibited in Hunt’s adaptations of his longer poems: 63—in which Hunt casts the protagonist Atys as a (Primitive) Methodist ranter—and 62—which reworks Catullus’ wedding song for Julia and …
Catullus 64 in Translation and Allusion
This chapter is about the reception of Catullus’ mini-epic poem 64. The first section shows how the poem was translated by Charles Abraham Elton, the philanthropic disseminator of classical literature in English to bourgeois Britain, and by the formally trail-blazing, Norwich-based Teutophile poet Frank Sayers. The second section hones in on the creative engagement with Catullus 64 by writers of the Cockney School including Thomas Love Peacock, L…
Catullus Unchained
Chapter 1 begins by focusing on routes of access to Catullus’ poetry from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries. It assesses a number of the difficulties of translating Catullus, especially his obscenity. The chapter discusses the first two book-length translations of Catullus in English, by John Nott (1795) and George Lamb (1821). Through comparison these translations reveal themselves to be highly dissimilar, not simply due to s…
A Cockney Catullus
This book traces the reception history of Catullus in Romantic-era Britain. It was in this turbulent period of British history that Catullus' whole book of poems was first translated into English, and the poet first achieved widespread canonical status. In between John Nott's pioneering book-length bilingual edition of Catullus (1795) and George Lamb's polished verse translation (1821) there was a great deal of Catullan literary activity (transla…
Antipodean Antiquities
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
A Cockney Catullus
This book traces the reception history of Catullus in Romantic-era Britain. It was in this turbulent period of British history that Catullus' whole book of poems was first translated into English, and the poet first achieved widespread canonical status. In between John Nott's pioneering book-length bilingual edition of Catullus (1795) and George Lamb's polished verse translation (1821) there was a great deal of Catullan literary activity (transla…
Catullus the Reformer
Chapter 4 focuses on the reception of Catullus by Leigh Hunt. It looks at the attraction of the Cockney School to Catullus’ countercultural style, consisting of his eroticism, intimate sociality, and highly emotive tone. Catullus’ cockney credentials were also exhibited in Hunt’s adaptations of his longer poems: 63—in which Hunt casts the protagonist Atys as a (Primitive) Methodist ranter—and 62—which reworks Catullus’ wedding song for Julia and …
Catullus 64 in Translation and Allusion
This chapter is about the reception of Catullus’ mini-epic poem 64. The first section shows how the poem was translated by Charles Abraham Elton, the philanthropic disseminator of classical literature in English to bourgeois Britain, and by the formally trail-blazing, Norwich-based Teutophile poet Frank Sayers. The second section hones in on the creative engagement with Catullus 64 by writers of the Cockney School including Thomas Love Peacock, L…
Catullus Unchained
Chapter 1 begins by focusing on routes of access to Catullus’ poetry from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries. It assesses a number of the difficulties of translating Catullus, especially his obscenity. The chapter discusses the first two book-length translations of Catullus in English, by John Nott (1795) and George Lamb (1821). Through comparison these translations reveal themselves to be highly dissimilar, not simply due to s…
A Cockney Catullus
This book traces the reception history of Catullus in Romantic-era Britain. It was in this turbulent period of British history that Catullus' whole book of poems was first translated into English, and the poet first achieved widespread canonical status. In between John Nott's pioneering book-length bilingual edition of Catullus (1795) and George Lamb's polished verse translation (1821) there was a great deal of Catullan literary activity (transla…
Frankenstein and Its Classics
Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth. Presenting twelve new essays intended for students, scholars, and other readers of Mary Shelley’s novel, the volume explores classical receptions in some of Frankenstein’s most important scenes, sources, and adaptations. Not limited to literature, the…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
Antipodean Antiquities
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
The Thucydidean Turn
The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the twentieth century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the ins…
Approaching Classical Reception through the Frame of Social Class
‘Comrade Doris’
From the cracked and humming screen of a hand-winding microfilm reader in suburban Moscow emerged slowly the names and correspondence of several British writers. Some of the names I had hoped to find, others were completely new to me, and one I knew well enough but had never dreamt of finding here. Doris Lessing’s signature struck like lightening from the reels of reports on the state of ‘progressive’ literature in the West.11 Many thanks are due…
Clássicos no fundo das minas
Over the course of this text we shall visit several sites of interaction between mineworkers and the ancient Greek and Roman classics. Beyond simply attesting to their existence, assessment of these interactions will cast some light on Graeco-Roman antiquity’s curious appeal to the mineworker of the period. But first I should contextualize this somewhat niche line of inquiry. The research into miner classics was undertaken when working with Edith…
Truth in the Late Foucault
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Art (8 works) · History (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Classics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Appreciation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)