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Re-establishes the enduring presence and value of classical literature in the Romantic era The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age reveals the extent to which writers now called romantic venerate and use classical texts to transform lyric and narrative poetry, the novel, mythology, politics, and issues of race and slavery, as well as to provide models for their own literary careers and personal lives. On both sides of the Atlantic the classics-including the surprising influence of Hebrew, regarded as a classical language-play a major role in what becomes labeled romanticism only later in the nineteenth century. The relation between classic and romantic is not one of opposition but subtle interpenetration and mutual transformation. While romantic writers regard what they are doing as new, this attitude in no way prompts them to abjure valuable lessons of genre, expression, and judgment flowing from the classical authors they love. This volume disturbs categories that have become too settled. Key Features Includesin almost equal proportion British and American authors and is transatlantic in scopeMoves well beyond the five canonical British romantic poets, on whom considerable work has been done concerning their relation to classical literatureIncludes studies of African American and women writers

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Author:   K. P. Van Anglen (Senior Lecturer on English, Emeritus, Boston University) ,  James Engell (Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.782kg
ISBN:  

9781474429641

ISBN 10:   1474429645
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   19 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age Part I: Classical Practice, Romantic Concerns, and Genre William Gilpin: A Classical Eye for the Picturesque, Margaret Doody Phillis Wheatley and the Political Work of Ekphrasis, Mary Louise Kete ""Past ruin’d Ilion"": The Classical Ideal and the Romantic Voice in Landor’s Poetry, Steven Stryer ""Larger the Shadows"": Longfellow’s Translation of Virgil’s Eclogue 1, Christoph Irmscher Changes of Address: Epic Invocation in Anglophone Romanticism, Herbert F. Tucker Part II: Wider Romantic Engagements with the Classical World Thoreau’s Epic Ambitions: ""A Walk To Wachusett"" and the Persistence of the Classics in an Age of Science, K. P.Van Anglen Pilgrimage and Epiphany: The Psychological and Political Dynamics of Margaret Fuller’s Mythmaking, Jeffrey Steele Remaking the Republic of Letters: James McCune Smith and the Classical Tradition, John Stauffer ""In the Face of the Fire"": Melville’s Prometheus, Classical and Romantic Contexts, John P. McWilliams Coleridge’s Rome, Jonathan Sachs The Classics and American Political Rhetoric in a Democratic and Romantic Age, Carl J. Richard Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: Appropriating the Matter of Rome and Renovating the Epic Career, Edward Adams Coda 13. The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture, James Engell

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"This volume brings together a remarkable array of leading experts on the place of the classics in literary culture - a collection that will drive scholarship on the romantics and their culture in the larger contours of literary history for years to come.-- ""Christopher N. Phillips, Lafayette College"""

This volume brings together a remarkable array of leading experts on the place of the classics in literary culture - a collection that will drive scholarship on the romantics and their culture in the larger contours of literary history for years to come.-- ""Christopher N. Phillips, Lafayette College""

This volume brings together a remarkable array of leading experts on the place of the classics in literary culture - a collection that will drive scholarship on the romantics and their culture in the larger contours of literary history for years to come. * Christopher N. Phillips, Lafayette College *

Author Information

K. P. Van Anglen is Senior Lecturer on English, retired, at Boston University. He is author of The New England Milton (1993), co-editor of Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (2008), and editor of the Translations volume (1986) in The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, which includes Thoreau’s English versions of plays traditionally ascribed to Aeschylus, and his renderings of parts of Pindar’s Odes and the Anacreontea. Van Anglen edited “Simplify, Simplify” and Other Quotations from Henry David Thoreau (1996). He recently coedited Thoreau at Two Hundred: Essays and Reassessments, essays commissioned by the Thoreau Society to celebrate the bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth. James Engell is Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has spent his career teaching at Harvard University where he has chaired the Departments of English and of Comparative Literature as well as the Degree Program in History & Literature. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, author of four books and numerous articles, as well as a contributor to and editor of nine volumes, his interests embrace the Enlightenment and Romanticism, rhetoric, and environmental issues. He studied classical literature with Glen Bowersock and Wendell Clausen and contributed the entry for Wordsworth to The Virgil Encyclopedia.

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