Rome reborn on western shores : historical imagination and the creation of the American republic /
"Rome Reborn on Western Shores examines the literature of the Revolutionary era to explore the ways in which American patriots employed the classics and to assess antiquity's importance to the early political culture of the United States. Where other writers have concentrated on political...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville, Va. :
University of Virginia Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Jeffersonian America.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- A revolutionary language: history and the classics in the age of revolution
- Britannia corrupt: the British empire in the revolutionary classical imagination
- "Judge the future by the past": the varieties of historical consciousness in revolutionary America
- Taking the toga: American patriots performing antiquity
- Cato americanus: classical pseudonyms and the ratification of the federal constitution
- "The pen of the historian, or the imagination of the poet": the revolution's history classicized
- Epilogue: from republic to empire: beyond 1776.
