Rising from the ruins : Roman antiquities in neoclassic literature /
The neoclassic tendency to write about the ruins of Rome was both an attempt to recapture the grandeur of the "golden age" of man as well as a lament for the passing of a great civilization. John Dyer, who wrote The Ruins of Rome in 1740, was largely responsible for the eighteenth-century...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars,
2009.
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