Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity
Title | Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Eastlake |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2018-11-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192569384 |
Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire, and these manifold and often contradictory representations are used as vehicles equally to capture the martial virtue of Wellington and to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. In the works of Thomas Macaulay, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling, among others, Rome emerges as a contested space with an array of possible scripts and signifiers which can be used to frame masculine ideals, or to vilify perceived deviance from those ideals, though with a value and significance often very different to ancient Greek models. Sitting at the intersection of reception studies, gender studies, and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies across discourses ranging from education and politics, this volume offers the first comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome as a cultural touchstone for nineteenth-century manliness and Victorian codifications of masculinity.
Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity
Title | Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Eastlake |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0198833032 |
Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire: this volume examines how these manifold and often contradictory representations are deployed in a range of ways in the works of authors from Thomas Macaulay to Rudyard Kipling to create useable models of masculinity.
Engendering Antiquity
Title | Engendering Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Joanne Eastlake |
Publisher | |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The Victorians and Ancient Rome
Title | The Victorians and Ancient Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Vance |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 1997-04-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0631180761 |
THE VICTORIANS & ANCIENT ROME Norman Vance has written the first full-length study of the impact on Victorian Britain of the history and literature of ancient Rome. His comprehensive account shows how not only scholars and poets but also engineers, soldiers, scientists and politicians gained inspiration from the writing, theory and practice of their Roman predecessors. The Roman theme is traced in nineteenth-century painting and music as well as literature and political discussion. There are chapters on the imaginative influence throughout the nineteenth century of five major Roman poets, framed by other chapters on Rome and European revolutions, nineteenth-century versions of Roman history, fictions of Rome, imperialism and decadence. Attention is also paid to the influence of developments in archaeology both at Rome and Pompeii and at Romano-British sites. Professor Vance provides a fascinating account of the sense of connection Victorian Britain felt with the Roman experience, a connection made the more complex because Britain had once been a Roman colony and because Christianity took hold and spread under the Roman Empire.
Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire
Title | Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Goldberg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2020-12-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000299007 |
This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like militarism, aggressive sexuality, and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation. In deliberations in the Senate, at social gatherings, and on military campaign, displays of consensus with other men greased the wheels of social discourse and built elite comradery. Through literary sources and inscriptions that offer censorious or affirmative appraisal of male behavior from the Middle and Late Republic (ca. 300–31 BCE) to the Principate or Early Empire (ca. 100 CE), this book shows how the vir bonus, or "good man," the Roman persona of male aristocratic excellence, modulated imperatives for personal distinction and military and sexual violence with political cooperation and moral exemplarity. While the advent of one-man rule in the Empire transformed political power relations, ideals forged in the Republic adapted to the new climate and provided a coherent model of masculinity for emperor and senator alike. Scholars often paint a picture of Republic and Principate as distinct landscapes, but enduring ideals of male self-fashioning constitute an important continuity. Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire provides a fascinating insight into the intertwined nature of masculinity and political power for anyone interested in Roman political and social history, and those working on gender in the ancient world more broadly.
Roman Manliness
Title | Roman Manliness PDF eBook |
Author | Myles McDonnell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2006-07-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521827884 |
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Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity
Title | Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Olson |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2017-05-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317392523 |
In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity, Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. This volume also sets out the details of masculine dress from literary and artistic evidence and the connection of clothing to rank, status, and ritual. This is the first monograph in English to draw together the myriad evidence for male dress in the Roman world, and examine it as evidence for men’s self-presentation, status, and social convention.