James Uden

Spectres of Antiquity

Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study of the relationship between Greco-Roman culture and the eighteenth-century Gothic. In fascinating and compelling detail, James Uden's book rewrites the history of the Gothic genre, demonstrating that the genre was haunted by a deeper sense of history than has previously been assumed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190910273
• ISBN-10: 0190910275
• Artikelnr.: 59462468

Autorenporträt

James Uden is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University and the author of The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1. Gothic and Classical in Eighteenth-Century Criticism: Ghosts,
Knights, and the Sublime
* 2. Horace Walpole, Gothic Classicism, and the Aesthetics of
Collection
* 3. Ann Radcliffe's Classical Remembrances
* 4. Queer Urges and the Act of Translation: Matthew Lewis
* 5. Classical Idols and the Early American Gothic: the Skepticism of
Charles Brockden Brown
* 6. Embodied Antiquity: Mary Shelley's Relationships with the Past
* Afterword: Haunting or Reception?