Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin

In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in hisMimesis: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.

At the time of his death Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University

Foreword (1993)	p. ix
Preface	p. xli
Introduction: Purpose and Method	p. 3
Sermo Humilis	p. 25
Excursus: Gloria Passionis	p. 67
Latin Prose in the Early Middle Ages	p. 83
Camilla, or, The Rebirth of the Sublime	p. 181
The Western Public and Its Language	p. 235
Abbreviations	p. 341
List of Works Cited	p. 343
Indexes
General Index	p. 373
Index of Latin Words	p. 389
Bibliography of the Writings of Erich Auerbach	p. 391
Biographical Note	p. 407
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Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

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