Norman Vance
Biographic Data
| ID | 1139683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Vance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Vance |
| SIGNATURE | VANCE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7843-1562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ages of Empire
This article surveys connections between usually crumbling empires, ancient and modern, with the barbarians almost at the gates, and manifestations of cultural or individual decadence. Greek and Roman historians usually disapproved, developing a decadence narrative to explain historical eclipse. But the luxury and wayward behaviors of once mighty empires and narcissistic emperors, ranging from Sardanapalus in ancient Assyria and Xerxes in Persia …
Unquiet Things
This is an ambitious and wide-ranging essay in literary and intellectual history. It traverses more than two centuries, from Shakespeare to Shelley by way of worthies such as John Locke and Robert
Classical Legacies
Irish Literature Since 1800
This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish roman…
Dickens and Benjamin
Helen Waddell and Maude Clarke, Irishwomen, Friends and Scholars
Many Irish women writers, historically neglected, were rather belatedly recovered and represented in the massive supplementary volumes of the controversial Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in 2
Anxieties of Empire and the Moral Tradition
Imagining Roman Britain
This is a useful and competent study of archaeological engagement with Roman remains in Victorian Britain. It draws on the personal letters and papers of individual antiquarians, the accessions list, minute-books and correspondence files of local archaeological bodies, and a range of archaeological journals and publications, to explore how one society engaged with another. As Dr Hoselitz observes, there is at least as much to discover about class…
Epic and the Big Picture
Review of: Tucker, H. F., 2008. 'Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse 1790–1910'. Oxford: Oxford University Press
The Victorians (Oxford English Literary History, Vol VIII
1University of Sussex The Victorians (Oxford English Literary History, Vol VIII: 1830–1880) Phillip Davis Oxford Oxford U.P. 2002 xv + 631 £ 30
Decadence from Belfast to Byzantium
Decadence is usually implicated in temporality, perceived in narrative terms in relation to a particular history of decline and fall from prior achievement or normality. The prototype of all such histories tends to be found in the later history of Rome. This essay, looking beyond Rome itself, proposes an alternative model of decadence associated not so much with temporality as with space and spatial metaphor, with extremity, distance, precarious …
Secular apocalyptic and Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895) makes ironically secular use of the imagery of the New Jerusalem and of unregenerate Babylon in the Book of Revelation. His purchase on the text is mediated both by Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress, a childhood favourite, and hymns such as ‘Jerusalem the Golden’ translated from Bernard of Cluny's De Contemptu Mundi. Avoiding the traditions of anti-Catholic interpretation, and of explicitly political readings whic…
Imperial Rome and Britain's Language of Empire 1600–1837
Britain's pre-Victorian overseas expansion stimulated Roman comparisons. But imperial Rome was a warning as much as an inspiration to future empires, a harsh and uncomfortable model for Britain as a former Roman colony. Roman dignity was claimed for British monarchs and achievements by Dryden and others. But there were mixed feelings about identifying expanding Britain as a second Roman Empire. In the eighteenth century the British freedom-fighte…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access NORMAN VANCE NORMAN VANCE University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 768–769, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.768 Published: 01 June 1996
Irish Literature
Preface Illustrations and Maps Outline, Chronology 1. Tradition, Ireland, Literature 2. Seventeenth-century Beginnings: Archbishop Ussher and the Earl of Roscommon 3. The Eighteenth-century and Beyond: William Drennan and Thomas Moore 4. The Literatures of Victorian England: William Carleton and Thomas D'Arcy McGee 5. Revival Reviewed: St John Ervine and James Joyce 6. Contemporary Ireland and the Poetics of Partition: John Hewitt and Seamus Hean…
Celts, Carthaginians and constitutions
F. S. L. Lyons in his Ford lectures at Oxford, and in a broadcast talk, has stressed the need for a new general theory of Irish culture, a wider understanding of the Irish tradition. This essay is an attempt to take a few steps in this direction. It will review some of the English literature written in Ireland between 1780 and 1820, and trace its connections with Ireland and with England. In the forty years after the Volunteer movement, it will b…
Kingsley's Christian Manliness
Celts, Carthaginians and constitutions
F. S. L. Lyons in his Ford lectures at Oxford, and in a broadcast talk, has stressed the need for a new general theory of Irish culture, a wider understanding of the Irish tradition. This essay is an attempt to take a few steps in this direction. It will review some of the English literature written in Ireland between 1780 and 1820, and trace its connections with Ireland and with England. In the forty years after the Volunteer movement, it will b…
Imagining Roman Britain
This is a useful and competent study of archaeological engagement with Roman remains in Victorian Britain. It draws on the personal letters and papers of individual antiquarians, the accessions list, minute-books and correspondence files of local archaeological bodies, and a range of archaeological journals and publications, to explore how one society engaged with another. As Dr Hoselitz observes, there is at least as much to discover about class…
Imperial Rome and Britain's Language of Empire 1600–1837
Britain's pre-Victorian overseas expansion stimulated Roman comparisons. But imperial Rome was a warning as much as an inspiration to future empires, a harsh and uncomfortable model for Britain as a former Roman colony. Roman dignity was claimed for British monarchs and achievements by Dryden and others. But there were mixed feelings about identifying expanding Britain as a second Roman Empire. In the eighteenth century the British freedom-fighte…
Irish Literature
Preface Illustrations and Maps Outline, Chronology 1. Tradition, Ireland, Literature 2. Seventeenth-century Beginnings: Archbishop Ussher and the Earl of Roscommon 3. The Eighteenth-century and Beyond: William Drennan and Thomas Moore 4. The Literatures of Victorian England: William Carleton and Thomas D'Arcy McGee 5. Revival Reviewed: St John Ervine and James Joyce 6. Contemporary Ireland and the Poetics of Partition: John Hewitt and Seamus Hean…
Irish Literature Since 1800
This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish roman…
Kingsley's Christian Manliness
Celts, Carthaginians and constitutions
F. S. L. Lyons in his Ford lectures at Oxford, and in a broadcast talk, has stressed the need for a new general theory of Irish culture, a wider understanding of the Irish tradition. This essay is an attempt to take a few steps in this direction. It will review some of the English literature written in Ireland between 1780 and 1820, and trace its connections with Ireland and with England. In the forty years after the Volunteer movement, it will b…
Irish Literature
Preface Illustrations and Maps Outline, Chronology 1. Tradition, Ireland, Literature 2. Seventeenth-century Beginnings: Archbishop Ussher and the Earl of Roscommon 3. The Eighteenth-century and Beyond: William Drennan and Thomas Moore 4. The Literatures of Victorian England: William Carleton and Thomas D'Arcy McGee 5. Revival Reviewed: St John Ervine and James Joyce 6. Contemporary Ireland and the Poetics of Partition: John Hewitt and Seamus Hean…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access NORMAN VANCE NORMAN VANCE University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 768–769, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.768 Published: 01 June 1996
Secular apocalyptic and Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895) makes ironically secular use of the imagery of the New Jerusalem and of unregenerate Babylon in the Book of Revelation. His purchase on the text is mediated both by Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress, a childhood favourite, and hymns such as ‘Jerusalem the Golden’ translated from Bernard of Cluny's De Contemptu Mundi. Avoiding the traditions of anti-Catholic interpretation, and of explicitly political readings whic…
Imperial Rome and Britain's Language of Empire 1600–1837
Britain's pre-Victorian overseas expansion stimulated Roman comparisons. But imperial Rome was a warning as much as an inspiration to future empires, a harsh and uncomfortable model for Britain as a former Roman colony. Roman dignity was claimed for British monarchs and achievements by Dryden and others. But there were mixed feelings about identifying expanding Britain as a second Roman Empire. In the eighteenth century the British freedom-fighte…
The Victorians (Oxford English Literary History, Vol VIII
1University of Sussex The Victorians (Oxford English Literary History, Vol VIII: 1830–1880) Phillip Davis Oxford Oxford U.P. 2002 xv + 631 £ 30
Decadence from Belfast to Byzantium
Decadence is usually implicated in temporality, perceived in narrative terms in relation to a particular history of decline and fall from prior achievement or normality. The prototype of all such histories tends to be found in the later history of Rome. This essay, looking beyond Rome itself, proposes an alternative model of decadence associated not so much with temporality as with space and spatial metaphor, with extremity, distance, precarious …
Epic and the Big Picture
Review of: Tucker, H. F., 2008. 'Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse 1790–1910'. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Imagining Roman Britain
This is a useful and competent study of archaeological engagement with Roman remains in Victorian Britain. It draws on the personal letters and papers of individual antiquarians, the accessions list, minute-books and correspondence files of local archaeological bodies, and a range of archaeological journals and publications, to explore how one society engaged with another. As Dr Hoselitz observes, there is at least as much to discover about class…
Anxieties of Empire and the Moral Tradition
Helen Waddell and Maude Clarke, Irishwomen, Friends and Scholars
Many Irish women writers, historically neglected, were rather belatedly recovered and represented in the massive supplementary volumes of the controversial Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in 2
Irish Literature Since 1800
This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish roman…
Dickens and Benjamin
Classical Legacies
Unquiet Things
This is an ambitious and wide-ranging essay in literary and intellectual history. It traverses more than two centuries, from Shakespeare to Shelley by way of worthies such as John Locke and Robert
Ages of Empire
This article surveys connections between usually crumbling empires, ancient and modern, with the barbarians almost at the gates, and manifestations of cultural or individual decadence. Greek and Roman historians usually disapproved, developing a decadence narrative to explain historical eclipse. But the luxury and wayward behaviors of once mighty empires and narcissistic emperors, ranging from Sardanapalus in ancient Assyria and Xerxes in Persia …
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