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Books by Emma Reisz
('Classical Presences' series), 2010
This volume brings together scholars of modern and ancient culture to explore historical, textual... more This volume brings together scholars of modern and ancient culture to explore historical, textual, material and theoretical interactions between classics and imperialism during the heyday of the British Empire from the late eighteenth through to its collapse in the early decades of the twentieth century. It examines the multiple dialogues that developed between Classics and colonialism in this period and argues that the two exerted a formative influence on each other at various levels. Most at issue in the contexts where Classics and empire converge is the critical question of ownership: to whom does the classical past belong? Did the modern communities of the Mediterranean have pre-eminent ownership of the visual, literary and intellectual culture of Greece and Rome? Or could the populations and intellectual centres of Northern Europe stake a claim to this inheritance? And in what ways could non-European communities and powers – Africa, India, America – commandeer the classical heritage for themselves? In exploring the relationship between classics and imperialism in this period, this volume examines trends that are of current importance both to the discipline of Classics and to modern British cultural and intellectual history. Both classics and empire, this volume contests, can be better understood by examining them in tandem: the development of classical ideas, classical scholarship and classical imagery in this period was often directly or indirectly influenced by empire and imperial authority, and the British Empire itself was informed, shaped, legitimised and evaluated using classical models.
Conferences by Emma Reisz
Interest in the connections between classics and imperialism has mounted rapidly in recent years.... more Interest in the connections between classics and imperialism has mounted rapidly in recent years. This conference brings together scholars of modern and ancient culture to explore historical, textual, material and theoretical interactions between the two. Focused on the British empire and on classical scholarship in English, papers at the conference concentrate on discrete historical or discursive moments, but collectively they span a wide chronological, geographical and conceptual range. The conference is intended to result in a book, which should provide a wide-ranging analysis of the synchronous development of the Second British Empire and modern English-language classical scholarship.
The conference theme of 'Hegemony and Cornucopia' alludes to the routes by which empires forge power from heterogeneity, imperial elites profiting from the diversity of empire while constructing discourses of identity and of alterity to maintain control. How was a changing Western scholarly understanding of ancient Greece and Rome connected to the ways in which European empires employed and understood the variation of their constituent populations, cultures, environments and products? How did encounters between European and non-European traditions of 'the classical' shape ancient historiography and modern imperialism? Topics explored by conference papers include:
• the role of classics in attempts to justify and consolidate European imperial power;
• the intellectual and material connections between British imperialism and the practice of philology and archaeology in the nineteenth century;
• ancient and modern interpretations of power, identity, citizenship and slavery;
• representations of the classical world in imperial popular culture;
• the use and representation of the European classics in colonial literature.
('Classical Presences' series), 2010
This volume brings together scholars of modern and ancient culture to explore historical, textual... more This volume brings together scholars of modern and ancient culture to explore historical, textual, material and theoretical interactions between classics and imperialism during the heyday of the British Empire from the late eighteenth through to its collapse in the early decades of the twentieth century. It examines the multiple dialogues that developed between Classics and colonialism in this period and argues that the two exerted a formative influence on each other at various levels. Most at issue in the contexts where Classics and empire converge is the critical question of ownership: to whom does the classical past belong? Did the modern communities of the Mediterranean have pre-eminent ownership of the visual, literary and intellectual culture of Greece and Rome? Or could the populations and intellectual centres of Northern Europe stake a claim to this inheritance? And in what ways could non-European communities and powers – Africa, India, America – commandeer the classical heritage for themselves? In exploring the relationship between classics and imperialism in this period, this volume examines trends that are of current importance both to the discipline of Classics and to modern British cultural and intellectual history. Both classics and empire, this volume contests, can be better understood by examining them in tandem: the development of classical ideas, classical scholarship and classical imagery in this period was often directly or indirectly influenced by empire and imperial authority, and the British Empire itself was informed, shaped, legitimised and evaluated using classical models.
Interest in the connections between classics and imperialism has mounted rapidly in recent years.... more Interest in the connections between classics and imperialism has mounted rapidly in recent years. This conference brings together scholars of modern and ancient culture to explore historical, textual, material and theoretical interactions between the two. Focused on the British empire and on classical scholarship in English, papers at the conference concentrate on discrete historical or discursive moments, but collectively they span a wide chronological, geographical and conceptual range. The conference is intended to result in a book, which should provide a wide-ranging analysis of the synchronous development of the Second British Empire and modern English-language classical scholarship.
The conference theme of 'Hegemony and Cornucopia' alludes to the routes by which empires forge power from heterogeneity, imperial elites profiting from the diversity of empire while constructing discourses of identity and of alterity to maintain control. How was a changing Western scholarly understanding of ancient Greece and Rome connected to the ways in which European empires employed and understood the variation of their constituent populations, cultures, environments and products? How did encounters between European and non-European traditions of 'the classical' shape ancient historiography and modern imperialism? Topics explored by conference papers include:
• the role of classics in attempts to justify and consolidate European imperial power;
• the intellectual and material connections between British imperialism and the practice of philology and archaeology in the nineteenth century;
• ancient and modern interpretations of power, identity, citizenship and slavery;
• representations of the classical world in imperial popular culture;
• the use and representation of the European classics in colonial literature.