Roman Presences
Roman Presences
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USDThis collection of essays explores aspects of the reception of ancient Rome in a number of European countries from the late eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. Rome has been made to stand for literary authority, republican heroism, imperial power and decline, the Catholic Church, the pleasure of ruins. The studies offered here examine some of the sometimes strange and unexpected places where Roman presences have manifested themselves during this period. Scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art, as well as classics, bring to bear a variety of approaches on a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's analysis of dreams. Rome's seemingly boundless capacity for multiple, indeed conflicting, signification has made it an extraordinarily fertile paradigm for making sense of - and also for destabilizing - history, politics, identity, memory and desire.
- This collection of studies explores in-depth receptions of Roman antiquity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European culture
- Contains contributions from several disciplines - classics, English literature, art history, history
- Argues, contrary to more recent views - e.g. those of Richard Jenkyns - that Rome continues to be an important influence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, though in a transmuted form
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Product details
May 2007Paperback
9780521036177
308 pages
228 × 150 × 12 mm
0.462kg
26 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction: shadows and fragments Catharine Edwards
- 1. A sense of place: Rome, history and empire revisited Duncan F. Kennedy
- 2. Envisioning Rome: Granet and Gibbon in dialogue Stephen Bann
- 3. Napoleon I: a new Augustus? Valérie Huet
- 4. Translating empire? Macaulay's Rome Catharine Edwards
- 5. Comparativism and references to Rome in British imperial attitudes to India Javed Majeed
- 6. Decadence and the subversion of empire Norman Vance
- 7. The road to ruin: memory, ghosts, moonlight and weeds Chloe Chard
- 8. Henry James and the anxiety of Rome John Lyon
- 9. 'The monstrous diversion of a show of gladiators': Simeon Solomon's Habet! Elizabeth Prettejohn
- 10. Christians and pagans in Victorian novels Frank M. Turner
- 11. Screening ancient Rome in the new Italy Maria Wyke
- 12. A flexible Rome: Fascism and the cult of romanità Marla Stone
- 13. The Nazi concept of Rome Volker Losemann
- 14. Ruins of Rome: T. S. Eliot and the presence of the past Charles Martindale
- Bibliography
- Index.
