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Author:

Sachs, Jonathan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83121161

Title:

Romantic antiquity : Rome in the British imagination, 1789-1832 / Jonathan Sachs.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Rome--In literature.
History in literature.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
English literature--Roman influences.
Romanticism--Great Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Pt. 1, Political writing and the novel. Rome and the Revolution Controversy ; From Roman to roman : the Jacobin novel and the Roman legacy in the 1790s -- Pt. 2, A Roman standard : Byron, ancient Rome, and literary decline ; Yet the capital of the world : Rome, repetition, and history in Shelley's later writings -- Pt. 3, Rome -- antic Shakespeare : Coriolanus on stage and page, 1789 -- 1820 ; What is the people? Rome on the Romantic stage after Kemble.

Series:

Classical presences

ISBN:

0195376129
9780195376128

OCLC:

(OCoLC)301948408

LCCN:

2009003973

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)