Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity (eBook)

Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity

Simon Goldhill (Autor)

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2011
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4007-6 (ISBN)

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How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.

Autor

Simon Goldhill is professor of Greek literature and culture and fellow and director of Studies in Classics at King's College, University of Cambridge. His many books include Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Martin Classical Lectures
• Reihe/Serie: Martin Classical Lectures
• Zusatzinfo: 16 color illus. 32 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aestheticism • Allegory • Alton Locke • Anachronism • Anactoria • Ancient Greece • Ancient Rome • Andy Warhol • Anglicanism • Anglo-Catholicism • Antiquity • archaeology • ART • Art and Revolution • Asceticism • Autobiography • barbarism • Bayreuth Festival • Biography • Black Athena • Britain • Cartoon • celibacy • Charles Kingsley • Charlotte Bront • chorus • Christian Apologetics • Christianity • Christian socialism • Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck • Church Fathers • Citizenship • Classical Antiquity • classical education • Classical tradition • Classicism • classics • Composition • Criticism • Cultural History • Culture • Dance • David Strauss • Desire • Early Christianity • Edmund Gosse • edward bulwer lytton • eroticism • Extremism • Female desire • Fiction • France • Fred W. Farrar • Genre • George Eliot • Grandee • Greek tragedy • Harmondsworth • Hector Berlioz • Hellenism • High Culture • historical criticism • historical fiction • Historicity • Historiography • History • Iconography • Ideology • Illustration • Imagery • Irony • Jews • John Chrysostom • John William Waterhouse • Juvenal • Latin Poetry • Lawrence Alma-Tadema • lectern • Libretto • Literature • Marie Corelli • Marius the Epicurean • Martin Classical Lectures • martyr • Mary Renault • Melodrama • Modernity • Muscular Christianity • narrative • national identity • Nationalism • Nineteenth-Century Studies • Novel • novelist • Novels • Opera • Orientalism • Oxford Movement • Paganism • Paintings • Pamphlet • Parody • Performance • Phaon • Philhellenism • pity • Poetry • Politics • Pomponia Graecina • popular culture • Prose • Protestantism • Prudentius • Racism • Reception • reception studies • Religion • Religious controversy • rhetoric • Richard Wagner • Roland Barthes • Roman Empire • Sappho • Sappho and Alcaeus • Self-control • Self-Definition • seriousness • Sexual Identity • Sexuality • Social network • Sophocles • Suetonius • Tertullian • Theater • the last days of pompeii • The Other Hand • The Ring • unrequited love • Victorian culture • Victorian Era • victorians • Virginia Woolf • Wilkie Collins • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4007-4 / 1400840074
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4007-6 / 9781400840076