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Author: William Fitzgerald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-03-09
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780521779692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines slavery in Roman culture through analysis of Roman literature; topics covered include punishment, fantasy, and the use of slaves as intermediaries between free persons.
Author: Deborah E. McDowell
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne William's "Dessa Rose" (1984). Among the contributors, Arnold Rampersad reads W.E.B. DuBois's classic work "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903) as a response to Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery" (1901). Hazel V. Carby examines novels of slavery and novels of sharecropping and questions the critical tendency to conflate the two, thereby also conflating the nineteenth century with the twentieth, the rural with the urban.
Author: Donald McCarthy
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Published: 2020
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Slavery was a defining characteristic of Roman social, economic, and cultural life from the Republican period to Late Antiquity. Slaves are pervasive in the historical record, appearing in brothels, at the theatre, in the amphitheatre, in the homes of the wealthy and on the farms of the surrounding countryside. Their place and influence in the literary history of the Latin-speaking world demands attention as well and this thesis will offer a discussion on the significance of slavery within two seemingly dissimilar texts: Vergil’s Georgics and St. Augustine’s Confessions. Vergil fashions the narrative of his didactic poem around shifting focalizations, forcing the reader to approach the agricultural world from many and varied perspectives, from the divine, to human beings, oxen, plants, soil, and tools. This presents a narrative wherein all elements of the agricultural world are become interconnected through a relationship of violence and domination. The personification and anthropomorphism of these disparate elements in combination with the slave language consistent throughout the poem, however, makes clear that Vergil is not presenting simply a violent world but the enslavement of all aspects of the farmer’s world. In a similar fashion, Augustine anchors his Confessions around the internal enslavement he experienced in his journey towards conversion. Augustine finds himself in bondage to his carnal and earthly desires and ambitions which distract him from the spiritual path he will eventually take. This slavery is located entirely in the spiritual sphere and hinges upon the inner immaturity, the pueritia, of Augustine that persists long after his maturation in the external world. Slavery for both Vergil and Augustine is an issue of understanding the nature of things, for Augustine, the nature of the human soul and for Vergil, the nature of an imagined Roman world after the rise of Octavian to the principate. Slavery links these two authors and will provide the foundation for future studies of literary slavery throughout the Latin canon"--
Author: Keith R. Bradley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-10-13
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521378871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1994, is concerned with discovering what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world.
Author: R.H. Barrow
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-09-21
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1000647811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlavery in the Roman Empire, first published in 1928, examines the working of slavery in the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. It analyses the means by which peoples were enslaved, and the roles in which they worked in Roman society.
Author: William Blair (advocate.)
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Published: 1833
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Professor Michael R Page
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1409479218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science,' beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining the interchange between emerging scientific ideas-specifically evolution and ecology-new technologies, and literature in nineteenth-century Britain, Page shows how British writers from Darwin to H.G. Wells confronted the burgeoning expansion of scientific knowledge that was radically redefining human understanding and experience of the natural world, of human species, and of the self. The wide range of authors covered in Page's ambitious study permits him to explore an impressive array of topics that include the role of the Romantic era in the molding of scientific and cultural perspectives; the engagement of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley with questions raised by contemporary science; Mary Shelley's conflicted views on the unfolding prospects of modernity; and how Victorian writers like Charles Kingsley, Samuel Butler, and W.H. Hudson responded to the implications of evolutionary theory. Page concludes with the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, to demonstrate how evolutionary fantasies reached the pinnacle of synthesis between evolutionary science and the imagination at the close of the century.
Author: Catherine Hezser
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2005-12-22
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 0191515663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained from employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that slavery remained a significant phenomenon of ancient Jewish everyday life and generated a discourse which resembled Graeco-Roman and early Christian views while at the same time preserving specifically Jewish nuances. Hezser examines the impact of domestic slavery on the ancient Jewish household and on family relationships. She discusses the perceived advantages of slaves over other types of labor and evaluates their role within the ancient Jewish economy. The ancient Jewish experience of slavery seems to have been so pervasive that slave images also entered theological discourse. Like their Graeco-Roman and Christian counterparts, ancient Jewish intellectuals did not advocate the abolition of slavery, but they used the biblical tradition and their own judgements to ameliorate the status quo.
Author: Dorota Dutsch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-02-25
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1118958004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading scholars A Companion to Plautus is a collection of original essays on the celebrated Old Latin period playwright. A brilliant comic poet, Plautus moved beyond writing Latin versions of Greek plays to create a uniquely Roman cultural experience worthy of contemporary scholarship. Contributions by a team of international scholars explore the theatrical background of Roman comedy, the theory and practice of Plautus’ dramatic composition, the relation of Plautus’ works to Roman social history, and his influence on later dramatists through the centuries. Responding to renewed modern interest in Plautine studies, the Companion reassesses Plautus’ works—plays that are meant to be viewed and experienced—to reveal new meaning and contemporary relevance. Chapters organized thematically offer multiple perspectives on individual plays and enable readers to gain a deeper understanding of Plautus’ reflection of, and influence on Roman society. Topics include metatheater and improvisation in Plautus, the textual tradition of Plautus, trends in Plautus Translation, and modern reception in theater and movies. Exploring the place of Plautus and Plautine comedy in the Western comic tradition, the Companion: Addresses the most recent trends in the study of Roman comedy Features discussions on religion, imperialism, slavery, war, class, gender, and sexuality in Plautus’ work Highlights recent scholarship on representation of socially vulnerable characters Discusses Plautus’ work in relation to Roman stages, actors, audience, and culture Examines the plot construction, characterization, and comic techniques in Plautus’ scripts Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series, A Companion to Plautus is an important resource for scholars, instructors, and students of both ancient and modern drama, comparative literature, classics, and history, particularly Roman history.
Author: K. Edwin Bryant
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9004316566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul and the Rise of the Slave locates Paul’s description of himself as a “slave of Messiah Jesus” in the epistolary prescript of Paul’s Epistle to Rome within the conceptual world of those who experienced the social reality of slavery in the first century C.E. The Althusserian concept of interpellation and the Life of Aesop are employed throughout as theoretical frameworks to enhance how Paul offered positive ways for slaves to imagine an existence apart from Roman power. An exegesis of Romans 6:12-23 seeks to reclaim the earliest reception of Romans as prophetic discourse aimed at an anti-Imperial response among slaves and lower class readers.
