Dear Colleagues
Camden House is pleased to announce the publication of the following title:
Decline & Fall of Virgil in Eighteenth-Century Germany
The Repressed Muse
Geoffrey Atherton
In the early modern period, the culture of Rome, with Virgil as its
greatest figure, was the model for emulation. Winckelmann, the
18th-century spokesman for philhellenism, extolled Greek art and
dismissed all Roman art as derivative and Virgil as second rate and
incapable of understanding true beauty. Yet he nonetheless remained
indebted to Virgil for his view of Greek art, although he failed to
recognize it. The export of Winckelmann's new view of Virgil and more
generally Roman culture - shared to varying extents by Lessing, Herder,
Goethe, and the brothers Schlegel - to the rest of Europe in the 19th
century soon made it the reigning dogma. Virgil became a repressed muse,
and has a continued, unexamined presence in the epic and idyll of
Klopstock, Wieland, Goethe, and Novalis. Geoffrey Atherton's comparative
investigation of the relation of modernity to antiquity through Virgil
and his twofold reception represents a new perspective on this issue.
For more information and a table of contents, please visit our web site at:
http://www.camden-house.com/virgil1.htm
This book may be ordered from your usual supplier or, in case of
difficulty, direct from Boydell & Brewer.
Posted by Michael Richards, Camden House - an imprint of Boydell &
Brewer Ltd
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University of Wales, Bangor
Bangor
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