Romans and Romantics -

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Résumé :
This volume provides, for the first time, an extensive and wide-ranging discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship from across Europe and the US, it assesses the influence ancient Roman culture has had upon Romanticism, and the influence Romanticism has in turn had upon our understanding of the ancient Romans. Arranged in three sections - Romanticisms, Romantics, and Reception - the 20 contributions in this volume assess various shared themes and motifs, case studies from the Romantic Period, and the way in which the reception of Romanticism shaped and was shaped by the reception of Roman antiquity. By highlighting the key role that the Romans played in the creation and development of Romanticism, and the role Romanticism has since played in conceptions of the Romans, Romans and Romantics initiates not only a reassessment of the relationship between its two protagonists, but develops a new understanding of each of them individually. Figures discussed within the volume include Byron, Emerson, Foscolo, Goethe, Hardy, Hawthorne, Keats, Maggi, Mozart, Niebuhr, Pastrone, Pater, Jean Paul, Poe, Pushkin, Mary and Percy Shelley, the Schlegel brothers, Charlotte Smith, Madame de Sta?l, Thoreau, Vosmaer, Wergeland, and Wordsworth....

Biographie:
Timothy Saunders is Lecturer in English Literature at Volda University College Charles Martindale is Dean of Arts and Professor of Latin at University of Bristol Ralph Pite is Professor of English Literature at University of Bristol Mathilde Skoie is Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Bergen and Head of the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo...

Sommaire:

• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• List of illustrations
• Introduction
• Part One: Romanticisms
• 1: Jonathan Sachs: Republicanism: Ancient Rome and Literary Modernity in British Romanticism
• 2: Helge Jordheim: The Struggle with Time: The Temporalization and Politicization of Roman Antiquity in the Works of the German Romantics
• 3: Timothy Saunders: Originality
• 4: Mathilde Skoie: Romantic scholars and classical scholarship: German readings of Sulpicia
• 5: Genevieve Liveley: On Love
• Part Two: Romantics
• 6: Stuart Gillespie: Literary History and Critical Historicism: Reading Wordsworth's Juvenal
• 7: Bruce Graver: Wordsworth and the Stoics
• 8: Juan Christian Pellicer: Virgil s Eclogues and Georgics in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head
• 9: Catharine Edwards: The return to Rome: desire and loss in Sta?l's Corinne
• 10: Timothy Webb: Haunted City: the Shelleys, Byron, and Ancient Rome
• 11: Jostein B?rtnes: Pushkin's Ovid
• 12: J?rgen Sejersted: Republicanism, Stoicism and Narcissism in Henrik Wergeland's The Creation, Man and Messiah
• 13: Carl J. Richard: The Romans and the American Romantics
• Part Three: Receptions
• 14: Elizabeth Prettejohn: Seeing and Making Art in Rome: Carel Vosmaer's The Amazon
• 15: Stefano Evangelista: Rome and the Romantic Heritage in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean
• 16: Ralph Pite: Thomas Hardy and 'the reach of perished Rome'
• 17: Erling Sandmo: Rulers, Ghosts, and Prophets: Romans in Romantic Opera
• 18: Piero Garofalo: Ancient Rome and Romanticism in Italian Cinema
• Afterword
• English Bards and German Professors
• Bibliography
• Index