The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age

ISBN-13: 9781474429658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str.

K. P. Van Anglen; James Engell

Spis treści

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, Margaret Doody; 2. Phillis Wheatley and the Political Work of Ekphrasis, Mary Louise Kete; 3. “Past ruin’d Ilion”: The Classical Ideal and the Romantic Voice in Landor’s Poetry, Steven Stryer ; 4. “Larger the Shadows”: Longfellow’s Translation of Virgil’s Eclogue 1, Christoph Irmscher; 5. Changes of Address: Epic Invocation in Anglophone Romanticism, Herbert F. Tucker; 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, K. P.Van Anglen; 7. Pilgrimage and Epiphany: The Psychological and Political Dynamics of Margaret Fuller’s Mythmaking, Jeffrey Steele; 8. Remaking the Republic of Letters: James McCune Smith and the Classical Tradition, John Stauffer; 9. “In the Face of the Fire”: Melville’s Prometheus, Classical and Romantic Contexts, John P. McWilliams; 10. Coleridge’s Rome, Jonathan Sachs; 11. The Classics and American Political Rhetoric in a Democratic and Romantic Age, Carl J. Richard ; 12. Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: Appropriating the Matter of Rome and Renovating the Epic Career, Edward Adams; Coda: 13. The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture, James Engell.