Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire

ISBN-13: 9780815361770 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

Barbara Goff; Michael Simpson

Opis

In this book an international team of contributors - working across Classics, History, Politics, and English - address a range of revolutionary transformations in England, America, France, Italy, and Russia, all of which were accorded the classical treatment.

Spis treści

Introduction Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson  1. ‘Innovation’ and revolution in seventeenth-century England Rachel Foxley  2. Classicising the American Crisis, 1760–1789 Nicholas Cole  3. Virtue, Representation, and the Politics of Ancient Greek History during the 1790s in Britain Sebastian Robins  4. The Night of the Statues: revolution and classicism in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of this World Adam Lecznar  5. Classicising The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century Greece Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Vasiliki Misiou  6. ‘What’s the Roman Republic to me, or I to the Roman Republic?’: Victorian Classicism and the Italian Risorgimento Isobel Hurst  7. Classics, Crisis and the Soviet Experiment to 1939 Henry Stead and Hanna Paulouskaya  8. Seeking New Classics in a Crisis: Modernity as Ancient History in German Thought Benjamin Gray  9. Of Minotaurs and Macroeconomics: Greek myth and common currency Michael Simpson.  Index