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• Winner of Awarded an Honourable Mention by the University English Book Prize 2020.
• Winner of Shortlisted for the University English Prize.

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it is hard not to enjoy Eastlake's wide reading, her careful choice of sources, her detailed interpretations, her well-chosen illustrations. From the early decades of the nineteenth century, when the Roman ideal seemed to have been monopolised by Napoleon, while Greek imagination and flexibility could be better appropriated in Britain, to the militarising ideologies of turn-of-the-century imperialists, we are taken through a vast range of different and often contradictory interpretations, literary, political and cultural. Distinctly enlightening. * Keith Maclennan, Classics for All * Eastlake's interpretation of Marius the Epicurean, both as a novel and as an intervention into Victorian debates on masculinity, is exemplary; she makes this structurally difficult historical novel relevant to its time and accessible to our own. . . . This is a well-researched, well written, and historically sensitive book. It refuses to fix a single meaning of the Roman world for the Victorians, instead cultivating multiple understandings of both Roman antiquity and Victorian masculinity, as well as their many intersections * James Campbell, University of Central Florida, English LIterature in Transition * As an academic project,Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinityis a massive accomplishment. Eastlake's reach as a scholar of nineteenth-century literature and culture is extensive... * Michael Kramp, Lehigh University, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies * Laura Eastlake's elegant monograph weaves together many disparate threads in a clear and persuasive way. It is a pleasure to see visual, ephemeral, political, and literary evidence discussed with equal care. The book has much to offer Classicists and Victorianists in both its level of specificity and its methodology. * Christian Lehmann, Bard High School Early College-Cleveland , Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

it is hard not to enjoy Eastlake's wide reading, her careful choice of sources, her detailed interpretations, her well-chosen illustrations. From the early decades of the nineteenth century, when the Roman ideal seemed to have been monopolised by Napoleon, while Greek imagination and flexibility could be better appropriated in Britain, to the militarising ideologies of turn-of-the-century imperialists, we are taken through a vast range of different and often contradictory interpretations, literary, political and cultural. Distinctly enlightening. * Keith Maclennan, Classics for All * Eastlake's interpretation of Marius the Epicurean, both as a novel and as an intervention into Victorian debates on masculinity, is exemplary; she makes this structurally difficult historical novel relevant to its time and accessible to our own. . . . This is a well-researched, well written, and historically sensitive book. It refuses to fix a single meaning of the Roman world for the Victorians, instead cultivating multiple understandings of both Roman antiquity and Victorian masculinity, as well as their many intersections * James Campbell, University of Central Florida, English LIterature in Transition *

it is hard not to enjoy Eastlake's wide reading, her careful choice of sources, her detailed interpretations, her well-chosen illustrations. From the early decades of the nineteenth century, when the Roman ideal seemed to have been monopolised by Napoleon, while Greek imagination and flexibility could be better appropriated in Britain, to the militarising ideologies of turn-of-the-century imperialists, we are taken through a vast range of different and often contradictory interpretations, literary, political and cultural. Distinctly enlightening. * Keith Maclennan, Classics for All * Eastlake's interpretation of Marius the Epicurean, both as a novel and as an intervention into Victorian debates on masculinity, is exemplary; she makes this structurally difficult historical novel relevant to its time and accessible to our own. . . . This is a well-researched, well written, and historically sensitive book. It refuses to fix a single meaning of the Roman world for the Victorians, instead cultivating multiple understandings of both Roman antiquity and Victorian masculinity, as well as their many intersections * James Campbell, University of Central Florida, English LIterature in Transition * As an academic project,Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinityis a massive accomplishment. Eastlake's reach as a scholar of nineteenth-century literature and culture is extensive... * Michael Kramp, Lehigh University, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies *

it is hard not to enjoy Eastlake's wide reading, her careful choice of sources, her detailed interpretations, her well-chosen illustrations. From the early decades of the nineteenth century, when the Roman ideal seemed to have been monopolised by Napoleon, while Greek imagination and flexibility could be better appropriated in Britain, to the militarising ideologies of turn-of-the-century imperialists, we are taken through a vast range of different and often contradictory interpretations, literary, political and cultural. Distinctly enlightening. * Keith Maclennan, Classics for All *

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Laura Eastlake is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edge Hill University, having previously taught English and Classics at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century masculinities and how Victorian writers like Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling, and Oscar Wilde used the ancient world to construct different styles of manliness. She has published on decadent masculinities of the fin de siècle and Wilkie Collins's little-known first novel Antonina. She is also the Public Engagement Officer for the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) and an Editor of the Wilkie Collins Journal.

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