Helen Slaney - Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 1750–1820

For Frederick
whose journey is just beginning

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception presents scholarly monographs offering new and innovative research and debate to students and scholars in the reception of Classical Studies. Each volume will explore the appropriation, reconceptualization and recontextualization of various aspects of the Graeco-Roman world and its culture, looking at the impact of the ancient world on modernity. Research will also cover reception within antiquity, the theory and practice of translation, and reception theory.

Also available in the Series:

Alexander the Great in the Early Christian Tradition:

Classical Reception and Patristic Literature, Christian Thrue Djurslev

Antipodean Antiquities, edited by Marguerite Johnson

Classics in Extremis, edited by Edmund Richardson

Faulkners Reception of ApuleiusThe Golden Ass inThe Reivers, Vernon L. Provencal

Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage,edited by Rosa Andjar and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos

Reading Poetry, Writing Genre, edited by Silvio Br and Emily Hauser

Sex, Symbolists and the Greek Body, Richard Warren

The Classics in Modernist Translationedited by Miranda Hickman and Lynn Kozak

The Thucydidean Turn: (Re)Interpreting Thucydides Political Thought Before, During and After The Great War, Benjamin Earley

Translations of Greek Tragedy in the Work of Ezra Pound, Peter Liebregts

Victorian Epic Burlesques, Rachel Bryant Davies

George Romney, Lady Hamilton as Medea ( c. 1786).

Jenkins Venus, Newby Hall (photography Heathcliff OMalley).

Johann Zoffany, Charles Townley and friends in his library (1780s).

Detail of chimneypiece at Parkstead House, Roehampton.

Le Beau Monde, engraving by Henry Moses in Hopes Designs of Modern Costume(1812).

Souvenir fan depicting Pompeii ( c. 1790).

Wedgwood tobacco jar, Temple of Flora ( c. 1790).

Antoine-Jean Gros, Sappho Leucade (1801).

Permission to reproduce material from the following publication has kindly been granted:

Slaney, H. 2018. In the body of the beholder: Herders aesthetics and classical sculpture in Purves (ed.), Touch and the Ancient Senses. London: Routledge.

The idea for this book initially arose from a visit to Kedleston Hall in 2013 arranged as public engagement training by the APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama). I pitched it to the British Academy as a project examining embodied reception in the long eighteenth century, and was fortunate to be awarded a BA Postdoctoral Fellowship (201416) to conduct the groundwork. I cannot thank the British Academy enough for their generous support. St Hildas College, Oxford was a home away from home for the duration of the fellowship, and Fiona Macintosh a tirelessly supportive mentor. In 2016 I took up a post in the Classics faculty and Research Office at the University of Roehampton, and I would like to thank my managers there, Victoria Platt and subsequently Richard Keogh, for a generous allocation of research time, including the sabbatical in 2018 without which the book could not have been completed.