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How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.

History of civilization --- Art --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Art, Victorian --- Art, British --- Opera --- Art, Victorian. --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- English literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Konst --- Antike. --- Künste. --- Rezeption. --- Classical antiquity --- Classical influences. --- History and criticism. --- Viktoriansk --- Influence. --- Waterhouse, John William, --- 1800-1899. --- Great Britain. --- Großbritannien --- Griechenland. --- Römisches Reich. --- Intellectual life --- Culture --- Cultural history --- Großbritannien. --- Civilization, Classical --- Victorian art --- Art, Modern --- Classical influences --- History and criticism --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Britain. --- Charles Kingsley. --- Charlotte Bront. --- Christianity. --- Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck. --- Classics. --- Edward Bulwer Lytton. --- France. --- Fred W. Farrar. --- Hellenism. --- Jews. --- John William Waterhouse. --- Lawrence Alma-Tadema. --- Reception Studies. --- Richard Wagner. --- Roman Empire. --- Sappho and Alcaeus. --- Sappho. --- The Last Days of Pompeii. --- The Ring. --- Victorian culture. --- Victorians. --- ancient Greece. --- ancient Rome. --- antiquity. --- art. --- barbarism. --- biography. --- chorus. --- citizenship. --- classicism. --- composition. --- culture. --- dance. --- desire. --- early Christianity. --- female desire. --- fiction. --- historical fiction. --- historicity. --- history. --- modernity. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nineteenth-century studies. --- novels. --- opera. --- paintings. --- performance. --- politics. --- racism. --- reception. --- religion. --- religious controversy. --- self-control. --- self-definition. --- sexual identity. --- sexuality. --- social network. --- theater.