Clarke, G. W. Rediscovering Hellenism : The Hellenic Inheritance and the English Imagination , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Illustrated by Plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 0521354803 Dust jacket complete in a clear protective sleeve. Grey cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owners inscription on half title. Plates. 280 pages clean and tights. The ten essays in this book are concerned with the phenomenon of Philhellenism, and in particular with cultural manifestations of English Philhellenism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Every society in every age of post-Renaissance Europe had its own version of Hellenism. This collection chooses to focus on England, and to explore ways in which Hellenism was continuously being rediscovered through cultural preoccupations and productions. The essays treat different aspects of literature and the visual arts at a time when the relationship between literature and classical scholarship was undergoing; significant change. The. Romantic vision of Greece is explored in the archetypally.. English philosophy of the Picturesque,, in its architectural setting and in garden design. Political and educational consequences of the nineteenth-century shift towards Hellenic rather than Roman ideals are the basis for an analysis of the Victorians' perceptions of themselves through their-' response to the Greek achievement. 'Throughout, the essays show how Hellenism proved to be both a source of revitalisation and subversion. English links . with contemporary - German classicism are also discussed. Rediscovering Hellenism will be of particular interest to. cultural historians and historians' of the classical heritage and its influence. It. includes black and white illustrations, and bibliographies to each essay. (Book ref. 127083)  £75.00

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