Spectres of Antiquity - Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830

Zusatztext This is an important and valuable scholarly advance. It possesses a high volume of new scholarly insights and connections. No one before Dr. Uden has revealed as many of these allusions to ancient Greek and Roman authors in classic Gothic literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England and America as there actually are, and many of them have never been brought out, to my knowledge, in a scholarly study before this one. A great number of discoveries here are new to modern scholarship. Informationen zum Autor James Uden is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University and the author of The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome. Klappentext Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study of the relationship between Greco-Roman culture and the eighteenth-century Gothic. In fascinating and compelling detail, James Uden's book rewrites the history of the Gothic genre, demonstrating that the genre was haunted by a deeper sense of history than has previously been assumed. Zusammenfassung Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study of the relationship between Greco-Roman culture and the eighteenth-century Gothic. In fascinating and compelling detail, James Uden's book rewrites the history of the Gothic genre, demonstrating that the genre was haunted by a deeper sense of history than has previously been assumed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Gothic and Classical in Eighteenth-Century Criticism: Ghosts, Knights, and the Sublime 2. Horace Walpole, Gothic Classicism, and the Aesthetics of Collection 3. Ann Radcliffe's Classical Remembrances 4. Queer Urges and the Act of Translation: Matthew Lewis 5. Classical Idols and the Early American Gothic: the Skepticism of Charles Brockden Brown 6. Embodied Antiquity: Mary Shelley's Relationships with the Past Afterword: Haunting or Reception?

Product details

• Authors: James Uden, James (Associate Professor of Classical Stud Uden, James (Associate Professor of Classical Studies Uden, Uden James
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780190910273
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091027-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Horror; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Ghost, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Classical texts, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Ancient History, Classic horror & ghost stories, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literature: history and criticism, Classic horror and ghost stories, Ancient, classical and medieval texts