British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile

by Stefano-Maria Evangelista

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, the book aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.

214 pages, Hardcover

First published June 9, 2009