Romans and Romantics
Timothy Saunders, Charles Martindale, Ralph Pite, and Mathilde Skoie
Abstract
This book provides discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship, it assesses the influence that ancient Roman culture has had upon Romanticism, and that Romanticism has had upon the understanding of the ancient Romans up to the present day. Part One takes a selection of general themes and motifs — republicanism, time, originality, and love — and assesses how these themes and motifs circulate between Roman antiquity and Romanticism. Part Two contains case-studies of specific engagement ... More
This book provides discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship, it assesses the influence that ancient Roman culture has had upon Romanticism, and that Romanticism has had upon the understanding of the ancient Romans up to the present day. Part One takes a selection of general themes and motifs — republicanism, time, originality, and love — and assesses how these themes and motifs circulate between Roman antiquity and Romanticism. Part Two contains case-studies of specific engagements between those who were alive in the so-called Romantic Period and specific aspects of Roman antiquity. Part Three then evaluates the reception of Romanticism in authors, writings, operas, and films that appeared after, and in full consciousness of, the formulation of this concept; it considers how these receptions are in turn shaped by and shaping the simultaneous reception of the ancient Romans. By highlighting in this way the key role that the Romans played in the creation and development of Romanticism, and that Romanticism has since played in conceptions of the Romans, this book initiates not only a reassessment of the relationship between its two protagonists, but a new understanding of each of them individually.
Keywords:
Roman Antiquity,
reception,
Romantics,
Romanticism,
Romans,
motifs,
time,
love,
originality,
republicanism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199588541 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199588541.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Timothy Saunders, editor
Lecturer in English Literature, Volda University College
Charles Martindale, editor
Dean of Arts & Professor of Latin, University of Bristol
Ralph Pite, editor
Professor of English Literature, University of Bristol
Mathilde Skoie, editor
Associate Professor of Classical Philology, University of Bergen, and Head of the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo
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