Roman presences : receptions of Rome in European culture, 1789-1945
1999, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420745
ISBN: 052159197X
Physical description; xii, 279 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; A sense of place: Rome, history and empire revisited / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Envisioning Rome: Granet and Gibbon in dialogue / Stephen Bann -- Napoleon I: a new Augustus? / Valérie Huet -- Translating empire? Macaulay's Rome / Catharine Edwards -- Comparativism and references to Rome in British imperial attitudes to India / Javed Majeed -- Decadence and the subversion of empire / Norman Vance -- The road to ruin: memory ghosts, moonlight and weeds / Chloe Chard -- Henry James and the anxiety of Rome / John Lyon -- 'The monstrous diversion of a show of gladiators': Simeon Solomon's Habet! / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Christians and pagans in Victorian novels / Frank M. Turner -- Screening ancient Rome in the new Italy / Maria Wyke -- A flexible Rome: fascism and the cult of romanità / Marla Stone -- The Nazi concept of Rome / Volker Losemann -- Ruins of Rome: T.S. Eliot and the presence of the past / Charles Martindale. Subjects; Literature, Modern Roman influences. Art, Modern Europe Roman influences. Europe Civilization Roman influences. Culture Europe. Rome Civilisation Influence. Europe Intellectual life.
Price: €85.00