TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Ancient Rome and Victorian masculinity
T2  - Classical presences
A1  - Eastlake, Laura, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5450945
AB  - 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.
SN  - 978-0-19-883303-1 sidottu
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - English fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Romans in literature.
KW  - English fiction.
KW  - Literature.
KW  - Rome : In literature.
KW  - Rome (Empire)
ER  -