Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile

Evangelista, S.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-05-22

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230547117

DOI: 10.1057/9780230242203

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 203