Some Previously Unrecognized References to Classical Historians in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's The Last Man
| Autor: | James Carney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Literature
Linguistics and Language History Literature and Literary Theory business.industry Modernity media_common.quotation_subject Art history Library and Information Sciences Plague (disease) Language and Linguistics Hellenic (Classical Greek) literature Trace (semiology) Politics English Language and Literature Classical antiquity Reception of Classical antiquity History of the ancient world Italic literatures i.e. Latin Greeks business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Notes and Queries. 61:527-530 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6941 0029-3970 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/notesj/gju133 |
| Popis: | ‘We are all Greeks,’ writes Percy Bysshe Shelley (PBS) in the preface to ‘Hellas.’ Given the systematic attempts by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (MWS) to exorcise the post-mortem influence of her husband, we should not be surprised to find that this claim, too, is interrogated in her fiction. Throughout The Last Man, MWS subtly aligns the fate of plague stricken modernity with the collapse of progressive political institutions in the classical world. Though largely unrecognised, this usually occurs by way of implicit reference to the works of classical historians like Herodotus, Livy, Julius Obsequens and Dio Cassius. My goal here is to trace where these allusions occur and comment on the polemical ends to which they are subordinated. Inevitably, however, this project must also form part of a broader critical enterprise that seeks to delineate the influence of antiquity on the second generation Romantics. |
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