Jane Stevenson (1) (1959–)
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Jane Stevenson was born in 1959 in London & brought up in London, Beijing, & Bonn. She teaches comparative literature & translation studies at the University of Warwick & lives with her husband in Warwickshire, England. Her novel, "London Bridges," will be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2001. mehr anzeigen (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Jane Stevenson
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The Margery Allingham Omnibus: Three Campion Mysteries (2006) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 18 Exemplare
The Oxford history of classical reception in English literature. Volume 2, 1558-1660 (2015) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings: Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity (1997) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Stevenson, Jane
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Stevenson, Jane Barbara
- Andere Namen
- Stevenson, J. B.
- Geburtstag
- 1959-12-02
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- London, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- London, England, UK
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Bonn, Germany
Beijing, China - Ausbildung
- Newnham College, Cambridge University (BA|1980|Ph.D|1985)
- Berufe
- novelist
lecturer - Beziehungen
- Davidson, Peter (husband)
- Organisationen
- Campion Hall, University of Oxford
University of Warwick
University of Aberdeen
Sheffield University
Henry Bradshaw Society - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Fellow, Renaissance Society of America
Fellow, International Society for the Study of the Classical Tradition
Fellow, International Society for Neo-Latin Studies
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, Society of Authors - Agent
- Pat Kavanagh (Peters, Fraser & Dunlop)
Peter Straus (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
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While set in contemporary London (well, almost contemporary, having been written in the dawn of the current century), it takes in a seventeenth century Greek church, historic sites around London and an ancient Greek manuscript. The contemporary aspects lie in the machinations of an ambitious and avaricious young lawyer who sees an opportunity to sequester a considerable fortune, aided and abetted by a pair of opportunistic Greeks, while the forces for good are represented by a capable and confident scholar assisted by an Australian woman financing her travails as a mature student by evening shifts in a central London pharmacy.
London itself plays a central role, with different parts of the city being rendered in affectionate detail. At times I was reminded of the opening scenes of J B Priestley’s Angel Pavement, while at others the book evoked Dickens. There are a couple of literary subplots, too.
All in all, it was highly entertaining, although occasionally it veered rather too close to the overly whimsical for my taste.… (mehr)