xxii, 431 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I ROMANTICISMS -- 1.Republicanism: Ancient Rome and Literary Modernity in British Romanticism / Jonathan Sachs -- 2.The Struggle with Time: The Temporalization and Politicization of Roman Antiquity in the Works of the German Romantics / Helge Jordheim -- The ques...

Contents note continued: 5.On Love / Genevieve Liveley -- pt. II ROMANTICS -- 6.Literary History and Critical Historicism: Reading Wordsworth's Juvenal / Stuart Gillespie -- 7.Wordsworth and the Stoics / Bruce Graver -- 8.Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head / Juan Christi...

Contents note continued: The Creation, Man, and Messiah (1830) -- Republic and revolution -- Romantic Stoicism -- Narcissism, love, and gender -- Conclusion -- 13.The Romans and the American Romantics / Carl J. Richard -- The Latin emphasis of the educational system -- The Romantics' Latin training...

Contents note continued: The period and the subject matter -- The end of antiquity -- History strikes back: Tito in London -- Joseph Martin Kraus: Aeneas i Cartago -- Prophecy and art: Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens -- Conclusion: Futures lost -- 18.Ancient Rome and Romanticism in Italian Cinema / Pie...