Isbn: 9780521591973 - roman presences: receptions of rome in european culture, 1789-1945 (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. ~No ownership marks. With dustwrapper. ~Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edn. Size: xii, 279pp.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:052159197X.…

1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xii + 279, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions).

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 279 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; A sense of place: Rome, history and empire revisited / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Envisioning Rome: Granet and Gibbon in dialogue / Stephen Bann -- Napoleon I: a new Augustus? / Vale?rie Huet -- Translating empire? Macaulay's Rome / Catharine Edwards -- Comparativism and references to Rome in British imperial attitudes to India / Javed Majeed -- Decadence and the subversion of empire / Norman Vance -- The road to ruin: memory ghosts, moonlight and weeds / Chloe Chard -- Henry James and the anxiety of Rome / John Lyon -- 'The monstrous diversion of a show of gladiators': Simeon Solomon's Habet! / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Christians and pagans in Victorian novels / Frank M. Turner -- Screening ancient Rome in the new Italy / Maria Wyke -- A flexible Rome: fascism and the cult of romanita? / Marla Stone -- The Nazi concept of Rome / Volker Losemann -- Ruins of Rome: T.S. Eliot and the presence of the past / Charles Martindale. Subjects; Literature, Modern Roman influences. Art, Modern Europe Roman influences. Europe Civilization Roman influences. Culture Europe. Rome Civilisation Influence. Europe Intellectual life. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. Scholars from several disciplines explore the significance of Rome from the late eighteenth century to 1945. Editor(s): Edwards, Catharine. Num Pages: 308 pages, 26 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 66. . 1999. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 279 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This collection of essays explores aspects of the reception of ancient Rome in a number of European countries from the late eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. Rome has been made to stand for literary authority, republican heroism, imperial power and decline, the Catholic Church, the pleasure of ruins. The studies offered here examine some of the sometimes strange and unexpected places where Roman presences have manifested themselves during this period. Scholars from several disciplines, including English literature and history of art, as well as classics, bring to bear a variety of approaches on a wide range of images and texts, from statues of Napoleon to Freud's analysis of dreams. Rome's seemingly boundless capacity for multiple, indeed conflicting, signification has made it an extraordinarily fertile paradigm for making sense of - and also for destabilizing - history, politics, identity, memory and desire.…