Title The call of classical literature in the romantic age / edited and with an introduction by K.P. Van Anglen and James Engell

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 426 pages) Contents William Gilpin: a classical eye for the picturesque / Margaret Doody -- Phillis Wheatley and the political work of Ekphrasis / Mary Louise Kete -- 'Past ruin'd Ilion": the classical ideal and the romantic voice in Landor's poetry / Steven Stryer -- "Larger the shadows": Longfellow's translation of Virgil's Eclogue 1 / Christoph Irmscher -- Changes of address: epic invocation in anglophone romanticism / Herbert F. Tucker -- Thoreau's epic ambitions: "A walk to Wachusett" and the persistence of the classics in an age of science / K.P. Van Anglen -- Pilgrimage and epiphany: the psychological and political dynamics of Margaret Fuller's mythmaking / Jeffrey Steele -- Remaking the republic of letters: James McCune Smith and the classical tradition / John Stauffer -- "In the face of the fire": Melville's Prometheus, classical and romantic contexts / John P. McWilliams -- Coleridge's Rome / Jonathan Sachs -- The classics and American political rhetoric in a democratic and romantic age / Carl J. Richard -- Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: appropriating the matter of Rome and renovating the epic career / Edward Adams -- The other classics: Hebrew shapes British and American literature and culture / James Engell Summary The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age reveals the extent to which writers now called romantic venerate and use classical texts to transform lyric and narrative poetry, the novel, mythology, politics, and issues of race and slavery, as well as to provide models for their own literary careers and personal lives Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Romanticism -- Great Britain -- 19th century Romanticism -- United States -- 19th century English literature -- Classical influences. American literature -- Classical influences LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. HISTORY -- Asia -- China. American literature -- Classical influences English literature -- Classical influences Romanticism Great Britain United States Form Electronic book Author Van Anglen, Kevin P., editor, writer of introduction Engell, James, 1951- editor, writer of introduction. ISBN 9781474429665 1474429661 9781474439312 1474439314

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