Nation, empire, decline
Subtitle: studies in rhetorical continuity from the Romans to the modern era
By: Nancy Shumate
Series: Classical inter/faces
Publisher: Duckworth
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780715635513
Subjects: Horace -- Criticism and interpretation; Juvenal -- Criticism and interpretation; Tacitus, Cornelius -- Criticism and interpretation; European literature -- 19th century -- Roman influences; European literature -- 20th century -- Roman influences; Nationalism in literature; Imperialism in literature; Rhetoric, Ancient
Description: "The often overlapping discourses of nationalism and imperialism, along with related ideas of social decline, have been central in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-European views of the world. This book offers four readings of Latin literary texts to show that the templates for these 'modern' discourses were forged in their essentials by the early Roman imperial period. Each chapter follows the relevant rhetorical thread in works of Horace, Tacitus or Juvenal, comparing their strategies with the defining structures of modern nationalist or colonialist discourses."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-185) and index