Troy, Carthage and the Victorians

• Author(s): Rachel Bryant Davies,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 383
• ISBN_10: 1107192668
  ISBN_13: 9781107192669
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Ancient / General , History / Social History , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events , Social Science / Archaeology ,

Description:... Cover -- Half-title page -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 Introduction: The Ruins of Troy and Carthage 'Still Flaming to the Imagination' in the Nineteenth Century -- Why the Nineteenth Century? -- Why Troy and Carthage? -- An Interdisciplinary Approach to Troy and Carthage in the Nineteenth Century -- 'The Golden Stream' and 'Classical Reception': A ComplexWeb of Sources -- Chapter Overviews -- 2 'An Imaginary Troy': Homeric Pilgrimage, Topography and Archaeology -- 'Scholars, in Their Zeal': The Antiquaries vs 'The Taxpayer' -- 'The Battle of Bunarbashi' (1795-1804): A Modern TrojanWar -- 'Ingenious Travellers': Scepticism vs Romantic Imagination -- 'Consecrated Ground': Higher Criticism vs the Proof of the Spade -- 'An Archaeological Joke': Responses to Schliemann's 'Disconveries' -- 'In the Trenches of Hisarlik' or 'Among the MusesWho Dwell on Olympus'? -- 3 'Not Classic, but Quite Correct': The Trojan War at the Circus -- 'Simple Minds in Every Rank of Life': Cross-Class Audiences at the Circus -- The 1833 Siege of Troy at Astley's: The Giant Horse of Sinon -- The 1854 Siege of Troy at Astley's: The Miss-Judgment of Paris -- 'Not All Strictly Greek and Trojan': Recreating Antiquity at the Circus -- 4 'Freely Perverted from Classic Texts': The Iliad and Aeneid Burlesqued -- 'Those Who Are Best Acquainted with Homer': Deconstructing Knowing, Confused and 'Classically Minded' Audiences -- 'Too Classical'? Collapsing Distinctions Between Primary Sources and Secondary Burlesques -- 'Aeneas Familiar with Cigars': Burlesques as Part of the Contemporary Landscape of Classics -- 'Surprise!' Dramatising Tensions Between a Real or Imagined Troy -- 5 'Sitting Among the Bricks of Covent Garden': Carthage and the Future Ruins of the Nineteenth Century