Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Classical Presences
Release date:	December 2018
Authors:	Laura Eastlake (Senior Lecturer in English Literature)
Dimensions:	223 x 149 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-883303-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies
LSN:	0-19-883303-2
Barcode:	9780198833031

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