Historical Biography - Ancient Era, Intellectual Movements, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Rome - Ancient History, Diplomacy & International Relations, Literary Movements, English Literature
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Overview
One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art.
Book Details
Published
June 12, 1977
Publisher
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1977.
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780822933458