Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance

by Richard Jenkyns

Book Overview

The starting point for Richard Jenkyns’ latest work is his contention that the Victorian age, which we think of as the great age of Gothic, was so shot through with the influence of the classical past... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674206258
• ISBN13: 9780674206250
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"