- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (18 July 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691149844
- ISBN-13: 978-0691149844
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 507,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[I]mmensely scholarly, highly-entertaining and broad-ranging. . . . Goldhill's timescale offers a new and contentious definition of the term 'Victorian', stretching from 1760 to the 1980s. -- Jane Thomas, Times Higher Education Supplement
[G]ripping . . . -- "Literary Review
Simon Goldhill, a professor at Cambridge, is a leading expert on Greek literature and culture; if you want to know more about the world of Aeschylus and Euripides, Goldhill is your man. -- Daniel Snowman, Literary Review
Using reception theory, Goldhill examines paintings, operas, and novels produced in Europe that appropriate stories from the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews. He shows how artists and writers retold these ancient stories to further their political and religious agendas. The author is persuasive in arguing that in the 19th century the classics were used to bolster an agenda of anti-Semitism, setting the state for WW II. The book contains beautiful color plates and also black-and-white photos showing works of art of the period and poses drawn from classical statuary. . . . The book is well written and the thesis well worth development. -- "Choice
[T]he book is of interest from a Wagnerian perspective in the insight it offers into the concerns of a society contemporary with Wagner and just across the water. . . . In its main topics, the painting and historical novel of Britain in the 19th century, this book is an eye-opener in its fascinating material and its approach. -- Michael Dyson, Wagner Journal
[G]ripping . . . -- "Literary Review
Simon Goldhill, a professor at Cambridge, is a leading expert on Greek literature and culture; if you want to know more about the world of Aeschylus and Euripides, Goldhill is your man. -- Daniel Snowman, Literary Review
Using reception theory, Goldhill examines paintings, operas, and novels produced in Europe that appropriate stories from the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews. He shows how artists and writers retold these ancient stories to further their political and religious agendas. The author is persuasive in arguing that in the 19th century the classics were used to bolster an agenda of anti-Semitism, setting the state for WW II. The book contains beautiful color plates and also black-and-white photos showing works of art of the period and poses drawn from classical statuary. . . . The book is well written and the thesis well worth development. -- "Choice
[T]he book is of interest from a Wagnerian perspective in the insight it offers into the concerns of a society contemporary with Wagner and just across the water. . . . In its main topics, the painting and historical novel of Britain in the 19th century, this book is an eye-opener in its fascinating material and its approach. -- Michael Dyson, Wagner Journal
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[I]mmensely scholarly, highly-entertaining and broad-ranging... Goldhill's timescale offers a new and contentious definition of the term 'Victorian', stretching from 1760 to the 1980s. -- Jane Thomas, Times Higher Education Supplement [G]ripping ... -- "Literary Review Simon Goldhill, a professor at Cambridge, is a leading expert on Greek literature and culture; if you want to know more about the world of Aeschylus and Euripides, Goldhill is your man. -- Daniel Snowman, Literary Review Using reception theory, Goldhill examines paintings, operas, and novels produced in Europe that appropriate stories from the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews. He shows how artists and writers retold these ancient stories to further their political and religious agendas. The author is persuasive in arguing that in the 19th century the classics were used to bolster an agenda of anti-Semitism, setting the state for WW II. The book contains beautiful color plates and also black-and-white photos showing works of art of the period and poses drawn from classical statuary... The book is well written and the thesis well worth development. -- "Choice [T]he book is of interest from a Wagnerian perspective in the insight it offers into the concerns of a society contemporary with Wagner and just across the water... In its main topics, the painting and historical novel of Britain in the 19th century, this book is an eye-opener in its fascinating material and its approach. -- Michael Dyson, Wagner Journal
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