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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (Hardcover)
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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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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. Sitting at the
intersection of reception studies, gender studies, and
interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies across discourses
ranging from education and politics, this volume offers the first
comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome as a
cultural touchstone for nineteenth-century manliness and Victorian
codifications of masculinity.
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