Table of Contents

List of Figures viii


List of Maps x


Notes on Contributors xi


Introduction 1
Craig W. Kallendorf


1 Education 5
Christopher Stray


Part I: Periods 15


2 Middle Ages 17
Jan M. Ziolkowski


3 Renaissance 30
Craig W. Kallendorf


4 Baroque 44
Ingrid D. Rowland


5 Neoclassicism 57
Thomas Kaminski


6 Romanticism 72
Bruce Graver


7 Victorian 87
Norman Vance


8 Modernism 101
Kenneth Haynes


Part II: Places 115


9 Africa 117
William J. Dominik


10 Central-Eastern Europe 132
Jerzy Axer with the assistance of Katarzyna Tomaszuk


11 France 156
Philip Ford


12 Germany and German-Speaking Europe 169
Volker Riedel


13 Iberian Peninsula 192
Luisa López Grigera


14 Italy 208
David Marsh


15 Latin America 222
Andrew Laird


16 Low Countries 237
Gilbert Tournoy


17 Scandinavia 252
Minna Skafte Jensen


18 United Kingdom 265
Richard Jenkyns


19 United States 279
Ward Briggs


Part III: Contemporary Themes 295


20 Reception 297
Charles Martindale


21 Postcolonial Studies 312
Lorna Hardwick


22 Gender and Sexuality 328
Alastair J. L. Blanshard


23 Fascism 342
Katie Fleming


24 Psychology 355
Fabio Stok


25 Modern and Postmodern Art and Architecture 371
Gail Levin


26 Film 393
Karl Galinsky


Bibliography 408


Index 471

About the Author

Craig W. Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He is the author of In Praise of Aeneas (1989), Virgil and the Myth of Venice (2000), and The Other Virgil (2007) as well as over 30 articles on the classical tradition.

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