Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination

by Laura Eastlake

Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198833032
• ISBN13: 9780198833031
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"