Nationalism and Classicism

Nationalism and Classicism The Classical Body as National Symbol in Nineteenth-Century England and France

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Publisher's Synopsis

Leoussi (sociology, U. of Reading) offers a comparative analysis of the social and cultural significant of the classical revivals that marked English and French art during the second half of the 19th century. She argues that the main focus was the body of the Greeks and that its idealization originated in the new life sciences, particularly in phys

Book information

ISBN: 9780312177768
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 709.4209034
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 260
Weight: -1g
Height: 110mm
Width: 71mm
Spine width: 17mm