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L08 Classics 449Topics in Classics: Romancing the Ruins: Victorian Rome3.0 Units
Description:This course will explore the legacy of ancient Rome in the literary, visual, social, and material culture of nineteenth-century Britain. Once a province of Rome, Britain, in the nineteenth century, with its vastly expanding empire, technological supremacy, and political and commercial power saw itself as Rome's successor in both its republican and imperial phases and, perhaps, in its decline and fall. The Latin and Greek classics were the common possession of the British elite; Romantic and Victorian poets adapted the works and generic forms of Virgil and Horace; popular literature based on Roman themes surged in popularity, and the decadent movement at the end of the century appropriated for its own purposes themes and tropes found in Latin poetry. Genres under discussion will include historiography (Gibbon), fiction (Hardy, Kipling, Conrad), poetry (Housman, Macaulay, Tennyson, Swinburne), visual art (Poynter, Millais, Alma-Tadema) and architecture. We will also investigate a range of evidence from material culture: how did the developing discipline of archaeology represent the traces of Roman antiquity in Britain in relation to the pre-Roman and later Christian past? Throughout the course we will consider theoretical questions that arise from the study of cultural reception: we will address how and to what ends one culture is both informed by and appropriates another.
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