Romantic Antiquity examines how Romantic-period writers deploy Roman republican precedents to constitute their vision of fundamental aspects of literary and political modernity.

Jonathan Sachs is Associate Professor of English, Concordia University, Montreal.

• Contents


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Part I: Political Writing and the Novel


• 1.: Rome and the Revolution Controversy


• 2.: From Roman to roman: The Jacobin Novel and the Roman Legacy in the 1790s


• Part II: Poetry


• 3.: A Roman Standard: Byron, Ancient Rome, and Literary Decline


• 4.: "Yet the Capital of the World": Rome, Repetition, and History in Shelley's Later Writings


• Part III: Drama


• 5.: Rome-antic Shakespeare: Coriolanus on the Romantic Stage and page, 1789-1820


• 6.: What is the People?: Rome on the Romantic Stage after Kemble


• Conclusion


• Bibliography