| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 431 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 understanding of the ancient Romans up to the present day. Part One takes a selection of general themes and motifs — republicanism, time, originality, and love — and assesses how these themes and motifs circulate between Roman antiquity and Romanticism. Part Two contains case-studies of specific engagements between those who were alive in the so-called Romantic Period and specific aspects of Roman antiquity. Part Three then evaluates the reception of Romanticism in authors, writings, operas, and films that appeared after, and in full consciousness of, the formulation of this concept; it considers how these receptions are in turn shaped by and shaping the simultaneous reception of the ancient Romans. By highlighting in this way the key role that the Romans played in the creation and development of Romanticism, and that Romanticism has since played in conceptions of the Romans, this book initiates not only a reassessment of the relationship between its two protagonists, but a new understanding of each of them individually |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-422) and index |
| Subject |
Romanticism -- Roman influences
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Civilization, Western -- Roman influences
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Historiography
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Romanticism
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature - General.
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Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Saunders, Timothy, 1974-
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Martindale, Charles, editor.
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Pite, Ralph, editor.
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Skoie, Mathilde, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191741845 |
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0191741841 |
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