Troy, Carthage and the Victorians The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction: The Ruins of Troy and Carthage ‘Still Flaming to the Imagination’ in the Nineteenth Century
- 2 ‘An Imaginary Troy’: Homeric Pilgrimage, Topography and Archaeology
- 3 ‘Not Classic, but Quite Correct’: The Trojan War at the Circus
- 4 Freely Perverted from Classic Texts’: The Iliad and Aeneid Burlesqued
- 5 ‘Sitting Among the Bricks of Covent Garden’: Carthage and the Future Ruins of the Nineteenth Century
- Epilogue: Troy and Carthage as ‘A Beacon and a Warning’
- Appendix A List of Burlesques
- Appendix B Select Chronology
- References
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2018
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction: The Ruins of Troy and Carthage ‘Still Flaming to the Imagination’ in the Nineteenth Century
- 2 ‘An Imaginary Troy’: Homeric Pilgrimage, Topography and Archaeology
- 3 ‘Not Classic, but Quite Correct’: The Trojan War at the Circus
- 4 Freely Perverted from Classic Texts’: The Iliad and Aeneid Burlesqued
- 5 ‘Sitting Among the Bricks of Covent Garden’: Carthage and the Future Ruins of the Nineteenth Century
- Epilogue: Troy and Carthage as ‘A Beacon and a Warning’
- Appendix A List of Burlesques
- Appendix B Select Chronology
- References
- Index
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- Troy, Carthage and the VictoriansThe Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination, pp. xvii - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018