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Time and antiquity in american empire : roma redux / Mark Storey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Storey, Mark, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in American literary history.
- Oxford studies in American literary history
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism in literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This cultural history of the American empire via ancient Rome tracks the way writers and artists have imagined Roman antiquity as an analogy that variously bolsters and critiques American imperial power.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series page
- Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction: Roma Redux
- Pasts
- Empire
- Antiquity
- Time
- A Note on Method
- Pasts, Again
- Part I: Histories
- 1: Republic
- November 8, 2016
- Republics
- Origins: Ursula K. Le Guin
- History in a Time of Fiction: John Williams
- Nothing to Do with Distance: Upton Sinclair
- February 1907/May 1860
- Side by Side with Rome: Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne
- No Longer, Not Yet: Louisa McCord and Mercy Otis Warren
- 2: Slave
- 2006
- Slaves
- America's World History: Toni Morrison
- Archaeologies of the Present: William Demby and Ralph Ellison
- Workers of History, Unite: Howard Fast
- Latin Revisions: W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton E. Griggs
- July 17, 1889
- Ancient Posterity: Robert Montgomery Bird
- Un-RomanAmerica: Charles Brockden Brown and Phillis Wheatley
- Part II: Genres
- 3: Dominion without End: Christian Fiction
- February 25, 2004
- "The Time Factor"
- 753 auc/November 1880: Lew Wallace
- June 363 ad/1964: Gore Vidal
- 273 ad/January 1838: William Ware
- 4: Among the Ruins: Travel Narratives
- Fall 2012
- "Immersed in Antiquities"
- 79/1867/1908/5868: William Dean Howells and Mark Twain
- 128 ad/1948: Eleanor Clark
- 27 bc/1848: Margaret Fuller
- 5: Waiting for the Barbarians: Science Fiction
- 1973
- "History of the Mehrikans"
- 1776/1951-3/c.22,000: Isaac Asimov
- 200/1929: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 130/1969/2004: Samuel R. Delany
- Epilogue: Roma Finita
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- Primary
- Secondary
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-264498-X
- 0-19-191440-1
- 0-19-264497-1
- OCLC:
- 1241451818
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