商品簡介
Rome seemed eternal indeed in Victorian England, as evidenced by fascination with archeology finds at Pompeii, Rome, and Romano-British sites. In his analysis of the affinity of this former Roman colony to its progenitor rather than to classical Greece, Vance (English, U. of Sussex) also explores this 19th century cultural fixation via: political discussions; romantic (pun intended) painting and literature; mythic interpretations of Roman history, decadence, imperialism, and revolution; the influence of five major ancient poets (Catullus, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, and Virgil) on Keats, Shelley, et al.; and the diffusion of Christianity under the Roman Empire. Paradoxically, concurrent education reform demoted the study of Latin. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
Norman Vance is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His previous books include The Sinews of the Spirit (1985), a study of Victorian Christian Manliness, and Irish Literature, a Social History (1990).
