Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1335763
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris
- ISBN
- 9781788310208
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- 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
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book resulted from the first major conference on children’s literature and classical reception, a subject which is now a growth area in Classical Reception studies, which Helen Lovatt jointly organised with Owen Hodkinson. The conference and subsequent book brought together academics and children’s authors to explore how the Greek and Roman worlds were adapted in literature for children. It played an important part in creating a community and setting the agenda for subsequent work. The volume focused on the theme of transformation: in childhood development, especially through education; how ancient material is transformed by receptions; how societies are transformed by historical change (and representations of it); and how myths of transformation reflect themes of identity. Lovatt and Hodkinson selected and improved the chapters, and guided the editing of the chapters for thematic coherence. Lovatt took the leading role in shaping the volume to focus on transformation and creating coherent responses to readers’ concerns, and produced the submitted version in its final shape. In addition, Lovatt wrote: pp.16-31 of the introduction (a case study of the Harry Potter books, one of the most influential phenomena in recent children’s literature and culture to make substantial use of ancient material; and the section on the rationale and connections between chapters); a chapter comparing children’s and adult detective fiction in Flavian Alexandria (pp.226-46), which explores how adult and children’s versions apply different models of education to create transformative effects; and the afterword (pp.272-87), which incorporates children’s voices, via transcribed interviews about reading practices and attitudes to stories from or set in Greece and Rome.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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