The Victorians and Ancient Rome
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This is the first full-length study of the impact on Victorian Britain of the history and literature of ancient Rome.
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Norman Vance is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His previous books include The Sinews of the Spirit (1985), a study of Victorian Christian Manliness, and Irish Literature, a Social History (1990).
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Preface.
Note on Translations and Texts.
Part I: Living Rome: Romantics and Revolution: .
1. The Persistence of Rome.
2. Rome and European Revolutions.
3. Rome and the Writing of History.
Part II: Roman Poets in the Nineteenth Century:.
4. Lucretius.
5. Catullus.
6. Virgil.
7. Ovid.
8. Horace.
Part III: Late Victorians and Later Rome:.
9. Fictions of Rome, or, Love, Death and Glory.
10. Rome and Imperial Debate.
11. Decadence, Degeneration and Decline.
Afterword.
Notes and References.
Index.
