Roman error : classical reception and the problem of Rome's flaws /
In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed; yet its faults have not only provoked censure but also inspired wayward and novel forms of thought and representation. This volume is the first to examine this phenomenon in depth, demonstrating that the reception of Roman errors has been far...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Classical presences.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Roman error : dangerous and inspiring / Basil Dufallo
- The error of Roman aesthetics / Caroline Vout
- Whose mistake? : the errors of friendship in Cicero, la boétie and Montaigne / Marc Bizer
- Friends, Romans, errors : moments in the reception of amicitia / Craig Williams
- Past sovereignty : Roman freedom for modern revolutionaries / Joy Connolly
- Receptions of Rome in debates on slavery in the U.S.A. / Margaret Malamud
- The romance of Roman error : encountering antiquity in Hawthorne's the marble faun / Catherine Edwards
- Im sinne der Antike" :masochism as Roman error in Venus in furs / Marci Formisano
- Correcting Rome with Rome : Victor Hugo's quatrevingt-treize / Michèle Lowrie, Barbara Winken
- The Roman aura in Henry James's Daisy Miller : a study (1878) / John Carlos Rowe
- The pleasures and punishments of Roman error : Emperor Elagabalus at the court of early cinema / Maria Wyke
- Psychic life in the eternal city : Julia Kristeva and the narcissism of Rome / Richard Fletcher.