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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
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Chapter 1 William Gilpin: A Classical Eye for the Picturesque -
Chapter 2 Phillis Wheatley and the Political Work of Ekphrasis -
Chapter 3 “Past ruin’d Ilion”: The Classical Ideal and the Romantic Voice in Landor’s Poetry -
Chapter 4 “Larger the shadows”: Longfellow’s Translation of Virgil’s Eclogue 1 -
Chapter 5 Changes of Address: Epic Invocation in Anglophone Romanticism -
Chapter 6 Thoreau’s Epic Ambitions: “A Walk To Wachusett” and the Persistence of the Classics in an Age of Science -
Chapter 7 Pilgrimage and Epiphany: The Psychological and Political Dynamics of Margaret Fuller’s Mythmaking -
Chapter 8 Remaking the Republic of Letters: James McCune Smith and the Classical Tradition -
Chapter 9 “In the face of the fire”: Melville’s Prometheus, Classical and Romantic Contexts -
Chapter 10 Coleridge’s Rome -
Chapter 11 The Classics and American Political Rhetoric in a Democratic and Romantic Age -
Chapter 12 Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: Appropriating the Matter of Rome and Renovating the Epic Career -
Chapter 13 The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture - Contributor List
- Index
Title Pages
Title Pages
- Source:
- The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
- Author(s):
- K. P. Van Anglen, James Engell
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
-
Chapter 1 William Gilpin: A Classical Eye for the Picturesque -
Chapter 2 Phillis Wheatley and the Political Work of Ekphrasis -
Chapter 3 “Past ruin’d Ilion”: The Classical Ideal and the Romantic Voice in Landor’s Poetry -
Chapter 4 “Larger the shadows”: Longfellow’s Translation of Virgil’s Eclogue 1 -
Chapter 5 Changes of Address: Epic Invocation in Anglophone Romanticism -
Chapter 6 Thoreau’s Epic Ambitions: “A Walk To Wachusett” and the Persistence of the Classics in an Age of Science -
Chapter 7 Pilgrimage and Epiphany: The Psychological and Political Dynamics of Margaret Fuller’s Mythmaking -
Chapter 8 Remaking the Republic of Letters: James McCune Smith and the Classical Tradition -
Chapter 9 “In the face of the fire”: Melville’s Prometheus, Classical and Romantic Contexts -
Chapter 10 Coleridge’s Rome -
Chapter 11 The Classics and American Political Rhetoric in a Democratic and Romantic Age -
Chapter 12 Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: Appropriating the Matter of Rome and Renovating the Epic Career -
Chapter 13 The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture - Contributor List
- Index
