Classical Victorians - Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Edmund Richardson is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham. Klappentext Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. Zusammenfassung This is a compelling account of Victorian Britain's troubled relationship with antiquity. Extraordinary characters - the virtuoso forger! the blundering general and the bitter prodigy - will engage scholars and general readers alike. This wide-ranging narrative breaks new ground in the fast-growing field of classical reception studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the resurrection men; 2. Old-fashioned ambition (a Victorian seduction); 3. In search of an empire of memory; 4. The children of Babel; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Richardson, Edmund (University of Durham) Richardson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107026773
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02677-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Classics After Antiquity; Classics after Antiquity
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History