'Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity' examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decad...

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1. Verfasser:	Eastlake, Laura (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Oxford University Press 2019
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schriftenreihe:	Classical presences
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1816-1918 English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism Romans in literature Männlichkeit Englisch Römisches Reich > Motiv Literatur Rome / In literature
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-739 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	'Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity' examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire, and these manifold and often contradictory representations are used as vehicles equally to capture the martial virtue of Wellington and to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. In the works of Thomas Macaulay, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling, among others, Rome emerges as a contested space with an array of possible scripts and signifiers which can be used to frame masculine ideals, or to vilify perceived deviance from those ideals, though with a value and significance often very different to ancient Greek models
Beschreibung:	This edition previously issued in print: 2018. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN:	9780191871351
DOI:	10.1093/oso/9780198833031.001.0001