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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
Includes in 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
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
