Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- UOA26-2728
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- I.B. Taurus
- ISBN
- 9781788310208
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 29 - Classics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The output consists of: the Introduction (pp. 1-37; Hodkinson 40% Lovatt 60%); the editorial work (50% Hodkinson) in curating the contributions at the outset and ensuring the coherence of the volume by internal cross-references and the Introduction’s contextualising; and two connected chapters, an interview with an author (pp. 50-63, my contribution 50%), and a substantial study of his work integrating the practitioner’s voice (pp. 64-86, Hodkinson 100%). The volume originated in the first ever conference devoted to classical reception studies in children’s literature, which the co-editors organised, but this is a themed subset of the original c.30 conference papers, thus a carefully conceived and curated edited volume, not merely conference proceedings. The conference broke new ground, initiating a rapidly growing sub-field of publications at this crossroads between two existing fields, classical reception studies and children’s literature studies, and by including different perspectives - in particular those of children’s authors and child readers. Though the volume did not end up being the first book published in this field, the work in pre-published form was nonetheless very influential in creating this new field, and noted as such in the two books that came out before, both of which refer to our forthcoming book and our conference in their introduction and bibliographies (L. Maurice ed. 2015 The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eagles, Brill: see pp.8-9; K. Marciniak ed. 2016 Our mythical childhood… The classics and literature for children and young adults, Brill: see p.13).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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