Research Catalog

Title

The uses and abuses of antiquity / Michael Biddiss and Maria Wyke, (eds).

Publication

Bern ; New York : P. Lang, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Biddiss, Michael Denis.
• Wyke, Maria.
• Biddiss, Michael D. (Michael Denis), 1942-

Description

281 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Geschichte 1600-1900
• Geschichte 1600-1990
• Civilization, Western > Classical influences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: using and abusing antiquity / Maria Wyke and Michael Biddiss -- 'This frantic woman': Boadicea and English neo-classical embarrassment / Carolyn D. Williams -- 1845 and all that: singing Greek tragedy on the London stage / Edith Hall -- Jews and Greeks: the invention and exploitation of polarities in the nineteenth century / Tessa Rajak -- Nationalism and the antique in nineteenth-century English and French art / Athena S. Leoussi -- Walter Pater's unsettling of the Apollonian ideal / Alex Potts -- The invention of modern Olympic tradition / Michael Biddiss -- The romanitas of the railway station / Janet DeLaine -- Sawdust Caesar: Mussolini, Julius Caesar, and the drama of dictatorship / Maria Wyke -- Tourism, town planning and romanitas: Rimini's Roman heritage / Ray Laurence -- Mythoplasia and feminist intent: painting as sub/culture / Angela Dimitrakaki -- The Muses and the museum: Maud Sulter's retelling of the canon / Sue Malvern -- Perspectives on maternal authority: mother / daughter relationships in Sophocles' Electra and Beckett's Footfalls / Anna MacMullan and Lib Taylor -- Ancients and moderns: literature and the 'Western Canon' / Patrick Parrinder.

ISBN

• 0820442178 (U.S.)
• 3906761649

LCCN

^^^99032206^

OCLC

• 41380576
• SCSB-11026157

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library