Classicising Crisis

Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of Your Secret Language: Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa (2013). With Michael Simpson she is co-author of Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone and Dramas of the African Diaspora (2007) and co-editor of Thinking the Olympics: the Classical Tradition and the Modern Games (2011). Michael Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is currently completing a single-authored book titled Lost Plots: Romanticism and the Distractions of Reading, and is collaborating with Barbara Goff on a major project called Working Classics: Greece, Rome, and the British Labour Movement.

Introduction Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson 1. ‘Innovation’ and revolution in seventeenth-century England Rachel Foxley 2. Classicising the American Crisis, 1760–1789 Nicholas Cole 3. Virtue, Representation, and the Politics of Ancient Greek History during the 1790s in Britain Sebastian Robins 4. The Night of the Statues: revolution and classicism in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of this World Adam Lecznar 5. Classicising The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century Greece Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Vasiliki Misiou 6. ‘What’s the Roman Republic to me, or I to the Roman Republic?’: Victorian Classicism and the Italian Risorgimento Isobel Hurst 7. Classics, Crisis and the Soviet Experiment to 1939 Henry Stead and Hanna Paulouskaya 8. Seeking New Classics in a Crisis: Modernity as Ancient History in German Thought Benjamin Gray 9. Of Minotaurs and Macroeconomics: Greek myth and common currency Michael Simpson. Index