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Book Synopsis Augustus Caesar in Augustan England by : Howard D. Weinbrot
Download or read book Augustus Caesar in Augustan England written by Howard D. Weinbrot and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the view that the period 1660-1800 is correctly regarded as the "Augustan" age of English literature, a time in which classical Augustan ideals provided a main source of inspiration. Scholars have held that British writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century considered Augustus Caesar to be the model of the wise ruler who enabled political, literary, and moral wisdom to flourish. This book shows on the contrary that classical standards, though often invoked, were often rejected by many informed citizens and writers of the day. Anti-Augustan sentiment consolidated by the 1730s, when both Whig and Tory, court and country, viewed Augustus as the enemy of the mixed and balanced constitution that was responsible for British liberty. Professor Weinbrot focuses in particular on literature and its classical backgrounds, reinterpreting major works by Pope and Gibbon. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Lucretius and the Augustan Age in England by : Helen Dorothy Sims
Download or read book Lucretius and the Augustan Age in England written by Helen Dorothy Sims and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Politics of Drama in Augustan England by : John Clyde Loftis
Download or read book The Politics of Drama in Augustan England written by John Clyde Loftis and published by Oxford, Clarendon P. This book was released on 1963 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slavery and Augustan Literature by : Dr J Richardson
Download or read book Slavery and Augustan Literature written by Dr J Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase substantially the English share of the international slave trade. They all wrote in support of the treaty that was meant to effect that increase. The book begins with contemporary ideas about slavery, with the Tory ministry years and with texts written during those years. These texts tend to obscure the importance of the slave trade to Tory planning. In its second half, the book analyses the attitudes towards slavery in Pope's Horatian poems, An Essay on Man, Polly, A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels. John Richardson shows how, despite differences, Swift, Pope and Gay adopt a mixed position of admiration for freedom alongside implicit support for slavery.
Book Synopsis Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England by : Roger D. Lund
Download or read book Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England written by Roger D. Lund and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, the author outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its unpredictable effects in works of philosophy, religious pamphlets, and legal writing.
Book Synopsis Byron: Augustan and Romantic by : Andrew Rutherford
Download or read book Byron: Augustan and Romantic written by Andrew Rutherford and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-10-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Augustan Art of Poetry by : Robin Sowerby
Download or read book The Augustan Art of Poetry written by Robin Sowerby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Augustan Culture written by Karl Galinsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving analysis and narrative throughout an illustrated text, the author provides an account of the major ideas of the Augustan age, and offers an interpretation of the creative tensions and contradictions that made for its vitality and influence.
Download or read book Augustus written by Karl Galinsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and concise biography Karl Galinsky examines Augustus' life from childhood to deification.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to English Literature by : Dinah Birch
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to English Literature written by Dinah Birch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature.
Book Synopsis Romantic Antiquity by : Jonathan Sachs
Download or read book Romantic Antiquity written by Jonathan Sachs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a concept that is simultaneously transformed and transformative: transformed in the sense that new models of historical thinking produced a changed understandings of historicity itself.
Book Synopsis Reading Pope's Imitations of Horace by : Jacob Fuchs
Download or read book Reading Pope's Imitations of Horace written by Jacob Fuchs and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reclaims Pope's meaning in each successive imitation by focusing on the differences between Horace's Latin poems and Pope's English versions. It considers not only Pope's expression of concerns about his own world but also the contemporary reputation of the Roman Augustan Age and of Augustus and Horace.
Book Synopsis Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century by : Jeff Strabone
Download or read book Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century written by Jeff Strabone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radical new theory of the role of poetry in the rise of cultural nationalism. With equal attention to England, Scotland, and Wales, the book takes an Archipelagic approach to the study of poetics, print media, and medievalism in the rise of British Romanticism. It tells the story of how poets and antiquarian editors in the British nations rediscovered forgotten archaic poetic texts and repurposed them as the foundation of a new concept of the nation, now imagined as a primarily cultural formation. It also draws on legal and ecclesiastical history in drawing a sharp contrast between early modern and Romantic antiquarianisms. Equally a work of literary criticism and history, the book offers provocative new theorizations of nationalism and Romanticism and new readings of major British poets, including Allan Ramsay, Thomas Gray, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Book Synopsis The Professions in Early Modern England by : Wilfrid Prest
Download or read book The Professions in Early Modern England written by Wilfrid Prest and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, The Professions in Early Modern England highlights the significant role of professional and quasi-professional occupations in English society before the industrial revolution, contrary to what was once historiographical and sociological orthodoxy. The editorial introduction provides an overview of the history of the professions as a distinct field of scholarly investigation, suggesting that neither historians nor social theorists have adequately mapped or explained the rise of the professions to their present place in modern societies. The following chapters bring together original contributions by researchers who have made a close study of various occupational groups over the period c. 1500-1750. Besides the traditional learned professions and their practitioners in the church, medicine and the law, they survey occupations generally lacking institutional coherence: school teachers, estate stewards and those following the profession of arms. This book remains of interest to students of history, literature and sociology.
Book Synopsis Presenting Gender by : Chris Mounsey
Download or read book Presenting Gender written by Chris Mounsey and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that concerns writers or real people of the early modern period who presented their protagonists or themselves as members of the opposite biological sex. The collection demonstrates the variety of motives for such acts of gender passing, and offers interpretations that shed some light on the probable intentions of the gender passers.
Book Synopsis The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586-1906 by : Richard Hingley
Download or read book The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586-1906 written by Richard Hingley and published by Oxford Studies in the History. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensively illustrated study of the origins of English and Scottish identity in the reading of classical texts which enabled authors and artists to imagine the character and appearance of their forebears. Richard Hingley relates ideas derived from Roman sources to the development of empire, and places theories of origin in a European context.
Book Synopsis Culture, Politics and Society in Britain, 1660-1800 by : Jeremy Black
Download or read book Culture, Politics and Society in Britain, 1660-1800 written by Jeremy Black and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
