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1 online resource (433 pages) |
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Intro; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age; Part I Classical Practice, Romantic Concerns, and Genre; Chapter 1 William Gilpin: A Classical Eye for the Picturesque; Chapter 2 Phillis Wheatley and the Political Work of Ekphrasis; Chapter 3 "Past ruin'd Ilion": The Classical Ideal and the Romantic Voice in Landor's Poetry; Chapter 4 "Larger the shadows": Longfellow's Translation of Virgil's Eclogue 1; Chapter 5 Changes of Address: Epic Invocation in Anglophone Romanticism; Part II Wider Romantic Engagements with the Classical World |
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Chapter 6 Thoreau's Epic Ambitions: "A Walk to Wachusett" and the Persistence of the Classics in an Age of ScienceChapter 7 Pilgrimage and Epiphany: The Psychological and Political Dynamics of Margaret Fuller's Mythmaking; Chapter 8 Remaking the Republic of Letters: James McCune Smith and the Classical Tradition; Chapter 9 "In the face of the fi re": Melville's Prometheus, Classical and Romantic Contexts; Chapter 10 Coleridge's Rome; Chapter 11 The Classics and American Political Rhetoric in a Democratic and Romantic Age |
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Chapter 12 Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: Appropriating the Matter of Rome and Renovating the Epic CareerCoda; Chapter 13 The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture; Contributor List; Index |
| Summary |
Examines the role that cinema played in imagining Hong Kong and Taiwan's place in the world |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- 19th century
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American literature -- Classical influences
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English literature -- Classical influences.
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Romanticism -- United States -- 19th century
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American literature -- Classical influences.
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English literature -- Classical influences.
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Romanticism.
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Great Britain.
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United States.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Engell, James
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| ISBN |
9781474429665 |
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1474429661 |
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