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Tennyson’s Classicism in Context: The Victorians and the Ancient World

A.A. Markley

Stateliest Measures, 2004, p.13

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Tennyson’s Classicism in Context: The Victorians and the Ancient World
Autor: A.A. Markley
Assuntos: Anthropology ; Applied anthropology ; Arts ; Behavioral sciences ; British history ; Classicism ; Cultural anthropology ; Cultural history ; Democracy ; Early Modern Period ; Epics ; Ethnography ; Ethnology ; European history ; European studies ; Folkloristics ; Government ; Historical methodology ; Historiography ; History ; Homeric epics ; Literary genres ; Literature ; Mythology ; Myths ; Plastic arts ; Poetry ; Political debate ; Political processes ; Political regimes ; Political science ; Political systems ; Politics ; Religious poetry ; Sculpture ; Victorian era ; Victorians ; Visual arts
É parte de: Stateliest Measures, 2004, p.13
Descrição: In order to understand fully Tennyson’s relationship to classical literature, it is important to consider the complex ways in which the Victorians viewed the ancient world. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England witnessed a dramatically renewed fascination with the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world. Debates concerning the relevance of classical scholarship and the efficacy of applying interpretations of ancient Greek and Roman culture to their own era became a national pastime. As Prince Albert said in a speech given in Manchester in 1857, ‘We must compare the works of other ages with those of our own age and
Editor: University of Toronto Press
Idioma: Inglês

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