One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art.
| ISBN: | 9780822984610 |
| Publication date: | 20th October 1977 |
| Author: | Laurence Goldstein |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary companions, book reviews and guides |