Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
1st Edition
Published on 4. September 2017
432 pages
978-1-4744-2966-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
- Part I Classical Practice, Romantic Concerns, and Genre
- Chapter 1 William Gilpin: A Classical Eye for the Picturesque
- Chapter 2 Phillis Wheatley and the Political Work of Ekphrasis
- Chapter 3 "Past ruin'd Ilion": The Classical Ideal and the Romantic Voice in Landor's Poetry
- Chapter 4 "Larger the shadows": Longfellow's Translation of Virgil's Eclogue 1
- Chapter 5 Changes of Address: Epic Invocation in Anglophone Romanticism
- Part II Wider Romantic Engagements with the Classical World
- Chapter 6 Thoreau's Epic Ambitions: "A Walk to Wachusett" and the Persistence of the Classics in an Age of Science
- Chapter 7 Pilgrimage and Epiphany: The Psychological and Political Dynamics of Margaret Fuller's Mythmaking
- Chapter 8 Remaking the Republic of Letters: James McCune Smith and the Classical Tradition
- Chapter 9 "In the face of the fi re": Melville's Prometheus, Classical and Romantic Contexts
- Chapter 10 Coleridge's Rome
- Chapter 11 The Classics and American Political Rhetoric in a Democratic and Romantic Age
- Chapter 12 Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: Appropriating the Matter of Rome and Renovating the Epic Career
- Coda
- Chapter 13 The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture
- Contributor List
- Index
