Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Virgil: A Pentheus to the Germans in the Eighteenth Century?
- 2 Virgil Both Read and Unread
- 3 Virgil the Rhapsode
- 4 Theorizing Genre: From Pastoral to Idyll
- 5 The German Idyll and the Virgilian Muse
- Conclusion: Proximity and Estrangement
- Works Cited
- Index
List of Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Virgil: A Pentheus to the Germans in the Eighteenth Century?
- 2 Virgil Both Read and Unread
- 3 Virgil the Rhapsode
- 4 Theorizing Genre: From Pastoral to Idyll
- 5 The German Idyll and the Virgilian Muse
- Conclusion: Proximity and Estrangement
- Works Cited
- Index
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- The Decline and Fall of Virgil in Eighteenth-Century GermanyThe Repressed Muse, pp. xix - xxPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006