UID:
almahu_9949080465502882
Umfang:
1 online resource (vi, 426 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781474429665 (ebook)
Inhalt:
The 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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).
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William Gilpin: a classical eye for the picturesque /
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Phillis Wheatley and the political work of Ekphrasis /
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'Past ruin'd Ilion": the classical ideal and the romantic voice in Landor's poetry /
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"Larger the shadows": Longfellow's translation of Virgil's Eclogue 1 /
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Changes of address: epic invocation in anglophone romanticism /
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Thoreau's epic ambitions: "A walk to Wachusett" and the persistence of the classics in an age of science /
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Pilgrimage and epiphany: the psychological and political dynamics of Margaret Fuller's mythmaking /
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Remaking the republic of letters: James McCune Smith and the classical tradition /
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"In the face of the fire": Melville's Prometheus, classical and romantic contexts /
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Coleridge's Rome /
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The classics and American political rhetoric in a democratic and romantic age /
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Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: appropriating the matter of Rome and renovating the epic career /
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The other classics: Hebrew shapes British and American literature and culture /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781474429641
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781474429665/type/BOOK
