TY - BOOK AU - Goldhill,Simon TI - Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity T2 - Martin Classical Lectures SN - 9780691149844 AV - DA550 U1 - 941.081 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Art, British KW - Classical influences KW - Art, Victorian KW - Great Britain KW - English literature KW - 19th century KW - Opera KW - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General KW - bisacsh KW - Britain KW - Charles Kingsley KW - Charlotte Bront KW - Christianity KW - Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck KW - Classics KW - Edward Bulwer Lytton KW - France KW - Fred W. Farrar KW - Hellenism KW - Jews KW - John William Waterhouse KW - Lawrence Alma-Tadema KW - Reception Studies KW - Richard Wagner KW - Roman Empire KW - Sappho and Alcaeus KW - Sappho KW - The Last Days of Pompeii KW - The Ring KW - Victorian culture KW - Victorians KW - ancient Greece KW - ancient Rome KW - antiquity KW - art KW - barbarism KW - biography KW - chorus KW - citizenship KW - classicism KW - composition KW - culture KW - dance KW - desire KW - early Christianity KW - female desire KW - fiction KW - historical fiction KW - historicity KW - history KW - modernity KW - national identity KW - nationalism KW - nineteenth-century studies KW - novels KW - opera KW - paintings KW - performance KW - politics KW - racism KW - reception KW - religion KW - religious controversy KW - self-control KW - self-definition KW - sexual identity KW - sexuality KW - social network KW - theater N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; INTRODUCTION. Discipline and Revolution: Classics in Victorian Culture --; PART 1. ART AND DESIRE --; CHAPTER ONE. The Art of Reception: J. W. Waterhouse and the Painting of Desire in Victorian Britain --; CHAPTER TWO. The Touch of Sappho --; PART 2. MUSIC AND CULTURAL POLITICS --; CHAPTER THREE. Who Killed Chevalier Gluck? --; CHAPTER FOUR. Wagner's Greeks: The Politics of Hellenism --; PART 3. FICTION: VICTORIAN NOVELS OF ANCIENT ROME --; CHAPTER FIVE. For God and Empire --; CHAPTER SIX. Virgins, Lions, and Honest Pluck --; SEVEN. Only Connect! --; CODA --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840076?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400840076 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400840076.jpg ER -