| Description |
1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford studies in American literary history |
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Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Series page -- Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: Roma Redux -- Pasts -- Empire -- Antiquity -- Time -- A Note on Method -- Pasts, Again -- Part I: Histories -- 1: Republic -- November 8, 2016 -- Republics -- Origins: Ursula K. Le Guin -- History in a Time of Fiction: John Williams -- Nothing to Do with Distance: Upton Sinclair -- February 1907/May 1860 -- Side by Side with Rome: Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- No Longer, Not Yet: Louisa McCord and Mercy Otis Warren -- 2: Slave -- 2006 -- Slaves -- America's World History: Toni Morrison -- Archaeologies of the Present: William Demby and Ralph Ellison -- Workers of History, Unite: Howard Fast -- Latin Revisions: W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton E. Griggs -- July 17, 1889 -- Ancient Posterity: Robert Montgomery Bird -- Un-RomanAmerica: Charles Brockden Brown and Phillis Wheatley -- Part II: Genres -- 3: Dominion without End: Christian Fiction -- February 25, 2004 -- "The Time Factor" -- 753 auc/November 1880: Lew Wallace -- June 363 ad/1964: Gore Vidal -- 273 ad/January 1838: William Ware -- 4: Among the Ruins: Travel Narratives -- Fall 2012 -- "Immersed in Antiquities" -- 79/1867/1908/5868: William Dean Howells and Mark Twain -- 128 ad/1948: Eleanor Clark -- 27 bc/1848: Margaret Fuller -- 5: Waiting for the Barbarians: Science Fiction -- 1973 -- "History of the Mehrikans" -- 1776/1951-3/c.22,000: Isaac Asimov -- 200/1929: Edgar Rice Burroughs -- 130/1969/2004: Samuel R. Delany -- Epilogue: Roma Finita -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Primary -- Secondary -- Index |
| Summary |
"This is a book about two empires--ancient Rome and the United States--and what happens to historical time when we think about them together. Ranging from the present day to the late eighteenth century, it tracks how the political and cultural imagination turned Roman antiquity into an object of mutual recognition--an analogy--for the imperial US state, sometimes for the sake of its justification and perpetuation, and sometimes as a tool of critique and resistance. To tackle this, it is divided into three parts: an introduction that lays out the conceptual and methodological stakes, a second part of two chapters on American empire's political foundations--the republic and the slave--and a third on the popular genres that have stepped into America and Rome's sometimes strange orbit: Christian fiction, travel narratives, and science fiction. But through this conjunction of literary history, classical reception studies, and the philosophy of history, this book is also a way into a more fundamental inquiry: about how we imagine both our politics and ourselves within and across historical time. Time and Antiquity in American Empire ultimately builds a new relationship between text and context, and between history and culture; one located in the oscillating, dialectical dynamics of the analogy, and in a grasp of temporality better understood through metaphors of interconnection--constellations and networks. Offering a fresh reckoning with the historicist protocols of literary study, it suggests that recognizing the forms of time that emerge when we analogize with the past is also a way of thinking about how we have read--and how we might yet, in a continuing spirit of critique, read"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on June 28, 2021) |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Imperialism in literature.
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American literature
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Imperialism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192644985 |
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019264498X |
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9780191914409 |
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0191914401 |
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