Roman presences : receptions of Rome in European culture, 1789-1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Edwards, Catharine
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Subjects:	Rome > Civilization > Influence. Europe > Civilization > Roman influences.

Table of Contents:

A sense of place: Rome, history and empire revisited / Duncan F. Kennedy
Envisioning Rome: Granet and Gibbon in dialogue / Stephen Bann
Napoleon I: a new Augustus? / Valérie Huet
Translating empire? Macaulay's Rome / Catharine Edwards
Comparativism and references to Rome in British imperial attitudes to India / Javed Majeed
Decadence and the subversion of empire / Norman Vance
The road to ruin: memory ghosts, moonlight and weeds / Chloe Chard
Henry James and the anxiety of Rome / John Lyon
'The monstrous diversion of a show of gladiators': Simeon Solomon's Habet! / Elizabeth Prettejohn
Christians and pagans in Victorian novels / Frank M. Turner
Screening ancient Rome in the new Italy / Maria Wyke
A flexible Rome: fascism and the cult of romanità / Marla Stone
The Nazi concept of Rome / Volker Losemann
Ruins of Rome: T.S. Eliot and the presence of the past / Charles Martindale.