Mapping Medea: Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800 by Anna Albrektson Hardcover

Description: Mapping Medea by Anna Albrektson, Fiona Macintosh Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This insightful and varied collection of essays uses rare material from archives across Europe to examine the many stage versions of Medea throughout the late-eighteenth century. Publisher Description The late-eighteenth century witnessed multiple Medeas take to the stages of Europe, in the Americas, and across the Russian empire. Performances took place in Moscow and São Paulo, in London and Lisbon, in Gotha, Stuttgart, and Venice. This lively collection of essays examines the various reasons why Medea, the ancient mother who killed her own children, attracted the attention of authors, audiences, actors, and rulers in Europe and its dominions during thepivotal period 1750 to 1800, and to what effects. As a migrant and iconoclast, Medea crosses a number of eighteenth-century borders: linguistic, cultural, national, temporal, spatial,aesthetic, ethical, and generic. Moreover, the fact that late-eighteenth-century playwrights, poets, composers, and choreographers all turned to one of the most problematic characters of Greco-Roman antiquity offers a unique opportunity to examine the remarkable flexibility of the reception process itself. Medea therefore functions as an intriguing case study, reflecting a wider context of cultural and political change within Europe and its colonies in the late-eighteenth century.By drawing together eighteenth-century specialists working across multiple languages and disciplines with the reception perspective of classical scholars, this volume brings much rare materialfrom a range of archives across continental Europe to critical attention for the first time. Mapping Medea shows how the eighteenth century made Medea modern, and Medea helped to shape modern performance. Author Biography Anna Albrektson (FKA Cullhed) is Professor of Literature at Stockholm University. She has published on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European poetics, and Swedish sentimental literature. Her current research concerns ecocriticism and Swedish literature, 1780-1840. Her project Moving Medea: The Transcultural stage in the Eighteenth Century was funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Albrektson is a formerPresident of the Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.Fiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hildas College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Dying Acts (1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 (OUP, 2005--with Edith Hall), Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus (2009), and Performing Epic or Telling Tales (OUP, 2020--with Justine McConnell). She has edited nine APGRD volumes,most recently Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2018) and Seamus Heaney and the Classics (OUP, 2019). Details ISBN 0192884190 ISBN-13 9780192884190 Title Mapping Medea Author Anna Albrektson, Fiona Macintosh Format Hardcover Year 2023 Pages 288 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:158412804; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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