The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age / / K. P. Van Anglen, James Engell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Van Anglen, K. P.,; Engell, James,
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Edward,; Doody, Margaret,; Engell, James,; Irmscher, Christoph,; Kete, Mary Louise,; McWilliams, John P.,; Richard, Carl J.,; Sachs, Jonathan,; Stauffer, John,; Steele, Jeffrey,; Stryer, Steven,; Tucker, Herbert F.,; Van Anglen, K. P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations

Re-establishes the enduring presence and value of classical literature in the Romantic eraThe Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age reveals the extent to which writers now called romantic venerate and use classical texts to transform lyric and narrative poetry, the novel, mythology, politics, and issues of race and slavery, as well as to provide models for their own literary careers and personal lives. On both sides of the Atlantic the classics—including the surprising influence of Hebrew, regarded as a classical language—play a major role in what becomes labeled romanticism only later in the nineteenth century. The relation between classic and romantic is not one of opposition but subtle interpenetration and mutual transformation. While romantic writers regard what they are doing as new, this attitude in no way prompts them to abjure valuable lessons of genre, expression, and judgment flowing from the classical authors they love. This volume disturbs categories that have become too settled.Key FeaturesIncludes in almost equal proportion British and American authors and is transatlantic in scopeMoves well beyond the five canonical British romantic poets, on whom considerable work has been done concerning their relation to classical literatureIncludes studies of African American and women writers

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age -- Part I: Classical Practice, Romantic Concerns, and Genre -- 1. William Gilpin: A Classical Eye for the Picturesque -- 2. Phillis Wheatley and the Political Work of Ekphrasis -- 3. “Past ruin’d Ilion”: The Classical Ideal and the Romantic Voice in Landor’s Poetry -- 4. “Larger the shadows”: Longfellow’s Translation of Virgil’s Eclogue 1 -- 5. Changes of Address: Epic Invocation in Anglophone Romanticism -- Part II: Wider Romantic Engagements with the Classical World -- 6. Thoreau’s Epic Ambitions: “A Walk To Wachusett” and the Persistence of the Classics in an Age of Science -- 7. Pilgrimage and Epiphany: The Psychological and Political Dynamics of Margaret Fuller’s Mythmaking -- 8. Remaking the Republic of Letters: James McCune Smith and the Classical Tradition -- 9. “In the face of the fire”: Melville’s Prometheus, Classical and Romantic Contexts -- 10. Coleridge’s Rome -- 11. The Classics and American Political Rhetoric in a Democratic and Romantic Age -- 12. Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: Appropriating the Matter of Rome and Renovating the Epic Career -- Coda -- 13. The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture -- Contributor List -- Index