British aestheticism and ancient Greece: hellenism, reception, gods in exile

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understandingof literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-54711-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 216
• Fecha Publicación: 15/05/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés