Roman Presences
Roman Presences
Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789–1945
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Exploring the significance of Rome from the late eighteenth century to 1945, scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art as well as classics, discuss a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's dream analysis. Rome's astonishing range of meanings has made it a fertile paradigm for making sense of--and also for problematizing--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
Reviews & endorsements
"...thoughtful and wide-ranging..." American Historical Review
"...the majority of the essays...offer sound academic approaches to their respective topics." - Christina Juma Loughborough University
Product details
April 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.
