Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal used by co…
Review text: "Le solide premesse teoriche esplicitate dai curatori fanno sì che il volume, nel suo complesso, sia ricco di interventi anche molto vari, ma sempre coerenti, pertinenti e stimolanti."Claudio Franzoni in: BMCR 2011.05.27.
"Often Regarded as a turning point in literary history, Romanticism is the period when writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge renounced the common legacy of poets and sought to create a new literature. Despite their emphasis on originality, genius, and spontaneity, the first-g…
"Often Regarded as a turning point in literary history, Romanticism is the period when writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge renounced the common legacy of poets and sought to create a new literature. Despite their emphasis on originality, genius, and spontaneity, the first-g…
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Neoclassical Poetics and the Rise of the Novel -- 1.1 Beating the Bounds of the Rules in Incognita -- 1.2 Manners, Passions, Unities -- 1.3 Neoclassicism and the Sciences -- Chapter 2. The Situational …
"Bringing neoclassicism back into today's critical debates, this study considers the cognitive underpinnings of the rules of poetic justice, the unities and decorum, underlines their relevance for today's cognitive poetics and traces their influence in the emerging narrative for…
"This short book examines the history of complacency in Classics with implications for our contemporary moment. It responds to a published piece by the philosopher Simon Blackburn ["The Seven Deadly Sins of the Academy," Times Higher Education (2009)] who presented "complacency"…
