Classicising crisis : the modern age of revolutions and the Greco-Roman repertoire /: the modern age of revolutions and the Greco-Roman repertoire. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson.
• Editors: Goff, Barbara E; Simpson, Michael, 1957-
• Contents: Introduction Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson 1. ‘Innovation’ and revolution in seventeenth-century England Rachel Foxley 2. Classicising the American Crisis, 1760–1789 Nicholas Cole 3. Virtue, Representation, and the Politics of Ancient Greek History during the 1790s in Britain Sebastian Robins 4. The Night of the Statues: revolution and classicism in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of this World Adam Lecznar 5. Classicising The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century Greece Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Vasiliki Misiou 6. ‘What’s the Roman Republic to me, or I to the Roman Republic?’: Victorian Classicism and the Italian Risorgimento Isobel Hurst 7. Classics, Crisis and the Soviet Experiment to 1939 Henry Stead and Hanna Paulouskaya 8. Seeking New Classics in a Crisis: Modernity as Ancient History in German Thought Benjamin Gray 9. Of Minotaurs and Macroeconomics: Greek myth and common currency Michael Simpson. Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.64091821; Civilization, Western -- Classical influences; Civilization, Modern -- Classical influences; Civilization, Classical -- Influence; Revolutions -- History; Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching; Classicism -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351115483; 9781351115490; 9781351115476; 9781351115506
• Related ISBNs: 9780815361770
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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