Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Description:

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

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

This collection of essays explores aspects of the reception of ancient Rome in a number of European countries from the late 18th century to the end of the Second World War. Rome has been made to stand for literary authority, republican heroism, imperial power and decline, the Catholic church, the pleasure of ruins. The studies offered here examine some of the sometimes strange and unexpected places where Roman presences have manifested themselves during this period. Scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art, as well as classics, bring to bear a variety of approaches on a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's analysis of dreams. Rome's seemingly boundless capacity for multiple, indeed conflicting, signification has made it an extraordinarily fertile paradigm for making sense of--and also for destabilising--history, politics, identity, memory and desire.

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ISBN:

052159197X
9780521591973
9780521036177
0521036178

Subject:

Literature, Modern Roman influences.
Art, Modern Europe Roman influences.
Europe Civilization Roman influences.
Civilization Influence.
Civilization Roman influences.
Romeinse oudheid.
Receptie.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Historia da europa.
Rome Civilization Influence.
Rome Civilisation Influence.
Europe Civilisation Influence romaine.
Europe.
Rome (Empire)
Rome (Italie) Civilisation Influence.
Europe Influence romaine.

Added entries:

Edwards, Catharine.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201408
Call No.: DG77 .R6 1999
Status: Available