Roman presences : receptions of Rome in European culture, 1789-1945 /

Roman presences : receptions of Rome in European culture, 1789-1945 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Description:	xii, 279 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Civilization -- Influence. Civilization -- Roman influences. Rome -- Civilization -- Influence. Europe -- Civilization -- Roman influences. Europe. Rome (Empire)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3785064

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Other authors / contributors:	Edwards, Catharine.
ISBN:	052159197X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-274) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: shadows and fragments
1. A sense of place: Rome, history and empire revisited
2. Envisioning Rome: Granet and Gibbon in dialogue
3. Napoleon I: a new Augustus? Val+¼rie Huet
4. Translating empire? Macaulay-s Rome
5. Comparativism and references to Rome in British imperial attitudes to India
6. Decadence and the subversion of empire Norman Vance
7. The road to ruin: memory, ghosts, moonlight and weeds Chloe Chard
8. Henry James and the anxiety of Rome
9. -The monstrous diversion of a show of gladiators-: Simeon Solomon-s Habet!
10. Christians and pagans in Victorian novels
11. Screening ancient Rome in the new Italy
12. A flexible Rome: Fascism and the cult of romanit+á
13. The Nazi concept of Rome
14. Ruins of Rome T. S. Eliot and the presence of the past
Bibliography
Index