The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age /

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

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, polit...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations
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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

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