Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature

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University of Pittsburgh Pre, 15 jul 1977 - 288 pagina's

One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art.

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1 Introduction
3
2 Immortal Longing and the Ruines of Time
11
3 John Dyer in the Eternal City
25
4 The Fleece and the Worlds Great Ae
43
5 Roxana and Empire
59
The Politics of Melancholy
73
The Politics of Nostalgia
95
8 Wordswort at Grasmere
114
9 The Arab Rider
136
Change and Loss in Grasmere
163
11 The Wordsworthian Child
184
12 Westward the Course of Empire
208
13 Conclusion
232
Notes
243
Index
265
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Laurence Goldstein is professor of English at the University of Michigan.

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