David Jones and Rome Reimagining the Decline of Western Civilisation

Jasmine Hunter Evans, The Open University

Jasmine Hunter Evans is Staff Tutor in Classical Studies at The Open University. She has developed an interdisciplinary research and teaching profile across English, Classics, and Education. She also specialises in research training, in particular, as an Associate for the National Coordinating
Centre for Public Engagement. Since completing a AHRC-funded PhD in English Literature and Classics at The University of Exeter, she has developed her key field of study by co-leading funded research projects, organising conferences, guest editing journals, giving talks and publishing works on the
artist, poet, and essayist David Jones.

Introduction: 'at the turn of time'
Part I. David Jones and Empire
Introduction to Part I: The Political Formation of the Roman Analogy
1. Shaping Rome through Contactual Experience: War and Post-War Disillusionment
2. British Imperial Rhetoric: Subverting the Roman Analogy of Empire
3. Expanding the Roman Imperial Analogy: Fascism, Communism, and the Co-agency of Empires
Part II. David Jones and Cyclical History
Introduction to Part II: The Roman Precedent for the Decline of Western Civilisation
4. Cyclical History and Roman Decline: A Theoretical Foundation for the Roman Fragments
5. The Forms of the Late Civilisational Phase: Charting the Decline of the West from Roman Precedents
6. The Antithesis of Culture and Civilisation: Examining Spenglerian Principles in Roman Poetry
Part III. David Jones and Culture
Introduction to Part III: Recovering Rome in the Pursuit of Western Unity and Continuity
7. Investigating Cultural Decline: The Classical and Christian Traditions
8. Reconnecting with Rome: The Fight for the Unity and Continuity of Western Culture
9. Jones s Cultural Theory: Re-establishing the Bridge in Response to the Break
Part IV. David Jones and Wales
Introduction to Part IV: The Roman Foundation of the Welsh Nation
10. Reimagining Cultural Decline: The Fight for Wales as Britain s Last Link to Rome
11. Rewriting Welsh History: Establishing Wales as a Roman Nation
12. Cultural Dynamics: The Place of Rome in the Bridge
Conclusion: 'down the history maze'