Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945Catharine Edwards This collection of essays explores aspects of the reception of ancient Rome in a number of European countries from the late 18th century to the end of the Second World War. Rome has been made to stand for literary authority, republican heroism, imperial power and decline, the Catholic church, the pleasure of ruins. The studies offered here examine some of the sometimes strange and unexpected places where Roman presences have manifested themselves during this period. Scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art, as well as classics, bring to bear a variety of approaches on a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's analysis of dreams. Rome's seemingly boundless capacity for multiple, indeed conflicting, signification has made it an extraordinarily fertile paradigm for making sense of--and also for destabilising--history, politics, identity, memory and desire. |
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Contents
Rome history and empire revisited | 19 |
Granet and Gibbon in dialogue | 35 |
a new Augustus? 53 | 53 |
Translating empire? Macaulays Rome 70 | 70 |
Comparativism and references to Rome in British imperial | 88 |
Decadence and the subversion of empire | 110 |
memory ghosts moonlight and weeds | 125 |
Henry James and the anxiety of Rome | 140 |
Simeon | 157 |
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