Mark Storey, Time and Antiquity in American Empire
Roma Redux
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21798109 |
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| Authors | Ronan Ludot-Vlasak (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transatlantica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1765-2766 • E-ISSN: 1765-2766 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/transatlantica.19612 |
| OpenAlex | W4311785547 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The reception of classical antiquity in the United States has attracted much critical attention over the past forty years. In Caroline Winterer's words, "next to Christianity, the central intellectual project in America before the late nineteenth century was classicism" (2002 1). Cultural historians have explored the "formative influence" of the classics upon the founders of the nation (Richards 7), the ubiquity of ancient models in the shaping of an American culture (Reinhold), or the burgeoning of "a classical visual culture" (Shalev 13; Winterer 2005) in the wake of the Independence. Scholars such as Michele Valerie Ronnick or John Levi Barnard have also traced the development of African American classicism since the nineteenth century. This "cult of antiquity" (Reinhold 23-24) not only allowed the citizens of the new nation to reflect on their political and cultural identity, but it also shaped their understanding of US history. Eran Shalev's Rome Reborn on Western Shores is telling in this respect. It has shed new light on how this fantasized kinship to the world of the ancients manifested itself through typological readings of US history, thus warping the chronology of historical time
Ancient history · Art · Empire · Late Antiquity · Redux · Classics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Engineering · History
| Highly cited | No |
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