Roman presences : receptions of Rome in European culture, 1789-1945
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
Print Book, English, 1999
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1999
xii, 279 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521591973, 9780521036177, 052159197X, 0521036178
39456035
A sense of place: Rome, history and empire revisited / Duncan F. Kennedy
Envisioning Rome: Granet and Gibbon in dialogue / Stephen Bann
Napoleon I: a new Augustus? / Valérie Huet
Translating empire? Macaulay's Rome / Catharine Edwards
Comparativism and references to Rome in British imperial attitudes to India / Javed Majeed
Decadence and the subversion of empire / Norman Vance
The road to ruin: memory ghosts, moonlight and weeds / Chloe Chard
Henry James and the anxiety of Rome / John Lyon
'The monstrous diversion of a show of gladiators': Simeon Solomon's Habet! / Elizabeth Prettejohn
Christians and pagans in Victorian novels / Frank M. Turner
Screening ancient Rome in the new Italy / Maria Wyke
A flexible Rome: fascism and the cult of romanità / Marla Stone
The Nazi concept of Rome / Volker Losemann
Ruins of Rome: T.S. Eliot and the presence of the past / Charles Martindale