This is the first full-length study of the impact on Victorian Britain of the history and literature of ancient Rome.
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).
Preface and Acknowledgements
vi
(2)
Note on Translations and Texts
viii
Part I Living Rome: Romantics and Revolution
1
(80)
1 The Persistence of Rome
3
(21)
2 Rome and European Revolutions
24
(30)
3 Rome and the Writing of History
54
(27)
Part II Roman Poets in the Nineteenth Century
81
(114)
4 Lucretius
83
(29)
5 Catullus
112
(21)
6 Virgil
133
(21)
7 Ovid
154
(21)
8 Horace
175
(20)
Part III Late Victorians and Later Rome
195
(74)
9 Fictions of Rome; or, Love, Death and Glory
197
(25)
10 Rome and Imperial Debate
222
(25)
11 Decadence, Degeneration and Decline
247
(22)
Afterword
269
(2)
Notes
271
(41)
Index
312
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