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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Basil Dufallo (Associate Professor of Greek and Latin, Associate Professor of Greek and Latin, University of Michigan)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.482kg ISBN: 9780198803034ISBN 10: 0198803036 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 14 December 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsFrontmatter List of Illustrations List of Contributors 0: Basil Dufallo: Introduction 1: Caroline Vout: The Error of Roman Aesthetics 2: Marc Bizer: Whose Mistake? The Errors of Friendship in Cicero, La Boétie, and Montaigne 3: Craig Williams: Friends, Romans, Errors: Moments in the Reception of amicitia 4: Joy Connolly: Past Sovereignty: Roman Freedom for Modern Revolutionaries 5: Margaret Malamud: Receptions of Rome in Debates on Slavery in the USA 6: Catharine Edwards: The Romance of Roman Error: Encountering Antiquity in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun 7: Marco Formisano: Im Sinne der Antike : Masochism as Roman Error in Venus in Furs 8: Michèle Lowrie and Barbara Vinken: Correcting Rome with Rome: Victor Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize 9: John Carlos Rowe: The Roman Aura in Henry James's Daisy Miller: A Study (1878) 10: Maria Wyke: The Pleasures and Punishments of Roman Error: Emperor Elagabalus at the Court of Early Cinema 11: Richard Fletcher: Psychic Life in the Eternal City: Julia Kristeva and the Narcissism of Rome Endmatter Bibliography IndexReviewsThis interesting book of essays (with a useful introduction by the editor) examines both perceived flaws in Roman life and also the flawed ways in which this flawed past has been received...The book is well illustrated with nine monochrome plates and there is a general index as well as a bibliography. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Author InformationBasil Dufallo is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. He is the author of two monographs - The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (The Ohio State University Press, 2007) and The Captor's Image: Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis (OUP, 2013) - as well as articles on Latin literature and Roman culture, and has also co-edited, with Peggy McCracken, the volume Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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