Where Will Dido Rest?

Sussman, Charlotte

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“…Where Power focuses on Fielding's engagement with Aeneas, and his attempt to decouple associations between Aeneas' heroism and rakishness, Horejsi concentrates on its sympathetic re‐evaluation of Dido, which she sees as part of a broader trend in eighteenth‐century fiction. Both Horejsi and Charlotte Sussman (2020) have identified the legacy of sympathy for the abandoned women in Virgil's Dido and Aeneas in the numerous eighteenth‐century versions of the Inkle and Yarico fable. Leah Orr (2016) has shown that other authors sought to exonerate Aeneas from any accusations of perfidy in his departure from Carthage to Italy, which caused them to present Dido unsympathetically, as a comedic, emotionally incontinent figure who was entirely responsible for her death.…”

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“…Horejsi and CharlotteSussman (2020) have identified the legacy of sympathy for the abandoned women in Virgil's Dido and Aeneas in the numerous eighteenth-century versions of the Inkle and Yarico fable. LeahOrr (2016) hasshown that other authors sought to exonerate Aeneas from any accusations of perfidy in his departure from Carthage to Italy, which caused them to present Dido unsympathetically, as a comedic, emotionally incontinent figure who was entirely responsible for her death.Classical epic poets besides Homer and Virgil have for the most part been considered in the context of translations by canonical English poets.…”

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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century

Calvert

2022

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This article provides a survey of the scholarship on classical literature and eighteenth-century British literary culture that has appeared since 2010. Drawing on general overviews of the period, as well as more specific work on translation and classical reception, it focuses on the following five subject-areas: non-elite readers of classical literature; the status of Homeric epic; the relationship between classical literature, Celticism and the Gothic; Horatianism; georgic poetry. The article then addresses the classical authors, texts and genres from outside of these areas which have also recently received scholarly attention, and identifies further topics of enquiry which require examining to provide the fullest picture of the eighteenth century's engagement with the literature of antiquity.

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