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Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean - Writing British Heritage in Ancient Lands

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The first study to examine the Mediterranean in nineteenth-century British writing, showing how its heritage shaped British imperialism.

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Introduction; Part I. 'Civis Romanus Sum': A Global Imperial Model: 1. Fractal; 2. Syncretism; Part I coda: La Libertà, unchained; Part II. 'We are all Greeks': Forging an Anglo-Hellenic Cultural Heritage: 3. Inheritance; 4. Irony; Part II coda: whitewashing hellas; Part III. 'Kindred with the Mummy': Rewriting the Holy Land; 5. Ruin; 6. Profanation; Part III coda: unholy land; Conclusion: the temporal forms of British heritage discourse.

About the author

Lindsey N. Chappell is Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. She has published articles in Victorian Literature and Culture, ELH, SEL, Literature Compass, Victorian Review, and elsewhere. Her research has been funded by numerous organizations, including the Council for European Studies and the Armstrong Browning Library.

Summary

This study is the first to explore the Mediterranean and its ubiquity in nineteenth-century British literature. Lindsey N. Chappell recovers the region's centrality to Romantic and Victorian constructions of the past, the present, and the shape of time itself, revealing how classical and biblical heritage shaped British imperialism.

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