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This book provides discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship, it assesses the influence that ancient Roman culture has had upon Romanticism, and that Romanticism has had upon the underst...

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Other Authors: Saunders, Timothy, 1974-, Martindale, Charles (Editor), Pite, Ralph (Editor), Skoie, Mathilde (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:Classical presences.
Subjects:
Romanticism > Roman influences.
Civilization, Western > Roman influences
Historiography
Romanticism
Rome (Empire)
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ralph Pite
  • Republicanism : ancient Rome and literary modernity in British romanticism / Jonathan Sachs
  • The struggle with time : the temporalization and politicization of Roman antiquity in the works of the German romantics / Helge Jordheim
  • Originality / Timothy Saunders
  • Romantic scholars and classical scholarship : German readings of Sulpicia / Mathilde Skoie
  • On love / Genevieve Liveley
  • Literary history and critical historicism : reading Wordsworth's juvenal / Stuart Gillespie
  • Wordsworth and the stoics / Bruce Graver
  • Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics in Charlotte Smith's Beachy head / Juan Christian Pellicer
  • The return to Rome : desire and loss in Staël's Corrine / Catharine Edwards
  • Haunted city : the Shelleys, Byron, and ancient Rome / Timothy Webb
  • Pushkin's ovid / Jostein Børtnes
  • Republicanism, stoicism, and narcissism in Henrik Wergeland's The creation, man, and messiah / Jørgen Magnus Sejersted
  • The Romans and the American romantics / Carl J. Richard
  • Seeing and making art in Rome : Carel Vosmaer's The amazon / Elizabeth Prettejohn
  • Rome and the romantic heritage in Walter Pater's Marius the epicurean / Stefano Evangelista
  • Thomas Hardy and 'the reach of perished Rome' / Ralph Pite
  • Rulers, ghosts, and prophets : Romans in romantic opera / Erling Sandmo
  • Ancient Rome and romanticism in Italian cinema / Piero Garofalo
  • Afterword : English bards and German professors / Glenn W. Most.