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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity by Eastlake, Laura is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity about?
Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity 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 virtue of Wellington and to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar
Who reads Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eastlake, Laura
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press USA - OSO
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192569394
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (2018)
- Masculinity And Ancient Rome In The Victorian Cultural Imagination (classical Presences) (2018)
- Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination (Classical Presences) (2019)
- Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (Classical Presences) (2019)
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