Ruins and empire: The evolution of a theme in Augustan and Romantic literature - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822933454 ISBN 13: 9780822933458

Synopsis

One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art.

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Review

"Mr. Goldstein has given us a pleasurable book. It moves across an extended tract of time and a number of authors, major and minor, and it moves well and easily. We go confidently with him as one who reads his texts with a ready intelligence. . . . He has always something interesting to say, he has lights to throw on his poets, or occasional novelist or artist, and he has a valuable story to tell, and to tell with style."
"--Modern Language Review"

Mr. Goldstein has given us a pleasurable book. It moves across an extended tract of time and a number of authors, major and minor, and it moves well and easily. We go confidently with him as one who reads his texts with a ready intelligence. . . . He has always something interesting to say, he has lights to throw on his poets, or occasional novelist or artist, and he has a valuable story to tell, and to tell with style.
" Modern Language Review""

About the Author

Laurence Goldstein is professor of English at the University of Michigan.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822933454
• ISBN 13: 9780822933458
• Binding: Hardcover