Roman presences : receptions of Rome in European culture, 1789-1945

List of illustrations List of contributors Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: shadows and fragments Catharine Edwards 1. A sense of place: Rome, history and empire revisited Duncan F. Kennedy 2. Envisioning Rome: Granet and Gibbon in dialogue Stephen Bann 3. Napoleon I: a new Augustus? Valerie Huet 4. Translating empire? Macaulay's Rome Catharine Edwards 5. Comparativism and references to Rome in British imperial attitudes to India Javed Majeed 6. Decadence and the subversion of empire Norman Vance 7. The road to ruin: memory, ghosts, moonlight and weeds Chloe Chard 8. Henry James and the anxiety of Rome John Lyon 9. 'The monstrous diversion of a show of gladiators': Simeon Solomon's Habet! Elizabeth Prettejohn 10. Christians and pagans in Victorian novels Frank M. Turner 11. Screening ancient Rome in the new Italy Maria Wyke 12. A flexible Rome: Fascism and the cult of romanit... Marla Stone 13. The Nazi concept of Rome Volker Losemann 14. Ruins of Rome: T. S. Eliot and the presence of the past Charles Martindale Bibliography Index.