Contents

pp iii-iv

Acknowledgments

pp v-vi

Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age

pp 1-32

Part I - Classical Practice, Romantic Concerns, and Genre

pp 33-34

1 - William Gilpin: A Classical Eye for the Picturesque

pp 35-52

2 - Phillis Wheatley and the Political Work of Ekphrasis

pp 53-79

3 - “Past ruin’d Ilion”: The Classical Ideal and the Romantic Voice in Landor’s Poetry

pp 80-102

4 - “Larger the shadows”: Longfellow’s Translation of Virgil’s Eclogue 1

pp 103-125

5 - Changes of Address: Epic Invocation in Anglophone Romanticism

pp 126-150

Part II - Wider Romantic Engagements with the Classical World

pp 151-152

6 - Thoreau’s Epic Ambitions: “A Walk To Wachusett” and the Persistence of the Classics in an Age of Science

pp 153-192

7 - Pilgrimage and Epiphany: The Psychological and Political Dynamics of Margaret Fuller’s Mythmaking

pp 193-219

8 - Remaking the Republic of Letters: James McCune Smith and the Classical Tradition

pp 220-240

9 - “In the face of the fire”: Melville’s Prometheus, Classical and Romantic Contexts

pp 241-266

10 - Coleridge’s Rome

pp 267-288

11 - The Classics and American Political Rhetoric in a Democratic and Romantic Age

pp 289-312

12 - Gibbon, Virgil, and the Victorians: Appropriating the Matter of Rome and Renovating the Epic Career

pp 313-338

Coda

pp 339-340

13 - The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture

pp 341-403

Contributor List

pp 404-408

Index

pp 409-426