Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
Subtitle: art, opera, fiction, and the proclamation of modernity
Series: Martin classical lectures
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780691149844
Copyright date: 2011
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Discipline and revolution : classics in Victorian culture; title: Part one : Art and desire.; title: The art of reception: J.W. Waterhouse and the painting of desire in Victorian Britain; title: The touch of Sappho; title: Part two : Music and cultural politics.; title: Who killed Chevalier Gluck?; title: Wagner's Greeks: the politics of Hellenism; title: Part three : Fiction : Victorian novels of ancient Rome.; title: For God and empire; title: Virgins, lions, and honest pluck; title: Only connect!; title: Coda