Classicising crisis : the modern age of revolutions and the Greco-Roman repertoire / edited by Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
  • ©2021
Description
x, 189 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Writer of introduction
Series
Routledge monographs in classical studies [More in this series]
Summary note
"Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the early modern period to the 20th century, were frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book an international team of contributors - working across classics, history, politics, and English - address a range of revolutionary transformations in England, America, France, Italy, and Russia, all of which were accorded the classical treatment. The chapters investigate discrete cases of classicising crisis, while the introduction highlights patterns among these moments. Underlying the collection is the critical premise that the association of revolutions with the Greco-Roman classics, otherwise quite conventional and familiar, may itself involve an epistemic 'crisis', as these terms are alien to one another, antagonistic, and yoked together in a violent blending of ancient and modern. Classicising crisis: the modern age of revolutions and the Greco-Roman repertoire is essential reading for students and scholars of classical reception and classicism, and will also be of interest to researchers in related subjects"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (and index.
Contents
  • 1. 'Innovation' and revolution in seventeenth-century England / Rachel Foxley
  • 2. Classicising the American Crisis, 1760-1789 / Nicholas Cole
  • 3. Virtue, representation, and the politics of ancient Greek history during the 1790s in Britain / Sebastian Robins
  • 4. The night of the statues: revolution and classicism in Alejo Carpentier's The kingdom of this world / Adam Lecznar
  • 5. Classicising the woman question in nineteenth-century Greece / Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Vasiliki Misiou
  • 6. 'What's the Roman Republic to me, or I to the Roman Republic?': Victorian Classicism and the Italian Risorgimento / Isobel Hurst
  • 7. Classics, crisis and the Soviet experiment to 1939 / Henry Stead and Hanna Paulouskaya
  • 8. Seeking new classics in a crisis: modernity as ancient history in German thought / Benjamin Gray
  • 9. Of minotaurs and macroeconomics: Greek myth and common currency / Michael Simpson.
ISBN
  • 9780815361770 (hardback)
  • 0815361777 (hardback)
LCCN
2020011576
OCLC
1154106460
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