Dr Anna-Maria Hartmann, Trinity

amrh3@cam.ac.uk

 

Biographical Information

I am a College Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, a Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College.

Research Interests

My main research focus is on the reception of mythology in sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature (mainly, but not exclusively Graeco-Roman mythology) and the genre of mythography. I have further interests in Francis Bacon; classical influences on English Literature 1500-1700; Shakespeare; translation; theory of literary reception; questions of genre.

Areas of Graduate Supervision

I welcome MPhil or PhD students who work in the fields mentioned above under ‘Research Interests’.

Selected Publications

Monograph
English Mythography in its European Context 1500-1650 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), published in the Classical Presences Series.

This book won the Roland H. Bainton Literature Prize for the best book on early modern literature published in 2018. This prize is awarded annually by the Sixteenth Century Society.

Articles, Chapters, and Review Articles

‘What Persius really thought about Virgil, c.1600’, International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2020), 1-20, DOI: 10.1007/s12138-020-00557-0 [available here: https://rdcu.be/b0TJo], print version forthcoming;

‘An Undemoncratic Turn? Review of Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths, byEmily Katz Anhalt’, Cambridge Quarterly 47.3 (2018), 272–279;

‘Approaches to Greek Myth, ed. by Lowell Edmunds’, Classical Review, 66:1 (2016), 22-4.

‘The Strange Antiquity of Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis’, Renaissance Studies, 29:3 (2015), 375-93;

‘Abraham Fraunce’s Use of Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara’s Metamorfosi’, Translation and Literature, 22:1 (2013), 103-10;

‘“A little work of mine that hath begun to pass the world”: Bibliographical Aspects of Francis Bacon’s De Sapientia Veterum and its Italian Translation’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 14:3 (2012), 203-18;

 ‘Light from Darkness: the Relationship between Francis Bacon’s Prima Philosophia and his Concept of the Greek Fable’, The Seventeenth Century, 26:2 (2011), 203-20;

‘Facts are King: Die mythologische Differenz im (post-)kolonialen Kontext’, in: Die mythologische Differenz: Studien zur Mythostheorie, ed. by Stefan Matuschek and Christoph Jamme (Heidelberg: Winter, 2009), pp. 185-205;

with Bent Gebert, Christian Martin and Uwe Mayer, ‘Einführung: Zur Heuristik der mythologischen Differenz’, in: Die mythologische Differenz: Studien zur Mythostheorie, ed. by Stefan Matuschek and Christoph Jamme (Heidelberg: Winter, 2009), pp. 9-20.