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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity
Engelsk Hardback
Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity
Engelsk Hardback

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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire, and these manifold and often contradictory representations are used as vehicles equally to capture the martial virtue of Wellington and to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. In the works of Thomas Macaulay, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling, among others, Rome emerges as a contested space with an array of possible scripts and signifiers which can be used to frame masculine ideals, or to vilify perceived deviance from those ideals, though with a value and significance often very different to ancient Greek models. Sitting at the intersection of reception studies, gender studies, and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies across discourses ranging from education and politics, this volume offers the first comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome as a cultural touchstone for nineteenth-century manliness and Victorian codifications of masculinity.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
258
ISBN-13:
9780198833031
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198833032
Udg. Dato:
4 dec 2018
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
222mm
Højde:
148mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
4 dec 2018
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge