Roman presences : receptions of Rome in European culture, 1789-1945 / edited by Catharine Edwards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwards, Catharine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Rome--Civilization--Influence.

Rome.

Europe--Civilization--Roman influences.

Europe.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

xii, 279 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-274) and index.

ISBN:

052159197X

OCLC:

39456035