One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art.
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ISBN | 9780822984610 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Jahr | 2004 |
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