{"product_id":"walking-through-elysium-vergils-underworld-and-the-poetics-of-tradition-hardback-9781487505776","title":"Walking Through Elysium; Vergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition (Hardback) 9781487505776","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWalking Through Elysium\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBill Gladhill (Edited by), Micah Y. Myers (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487505776\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.4 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWalking through Elysium \u003c\/i\u003edeserves the attention of anyone interested in the splendor of Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s achievement in what some consider to be his finest product…The editors and their colleagues have succeeded in continuing the endless and enthralling walk of explicating \u003ci\u003eAeneid 6\u003c\/i\u003e with admirable vigor and welcome lucidity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Lee Fratantuono, Maynooth University \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eCJ-Online\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalking through Elysium\u003c\/em\u003e stresses the subtle and intricate ways writers across time and space wove Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s underworld in \u003cem\u003eAeneid 6\u003c\/em\u003e into their works. These allusions operate on many levels, from the literary and political to the religious and spiritual. \u003cem\u003eAeneid 6\u003c\/em\u003e reshaped prior philosophical, religious, and poetic traditions of underworld descents, while offering a universalizing account of the spiritual that could accommodate prior as well as emerging religious and philosophical systems. Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s underworld became an archetype, a model flexible enough to be employed across genres, and periods, and among differing cultural and religious contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays in this volume speak to Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s incorporation of and influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized, tracing the impact of Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s underworld on authors such as Ovid, Seneca, Statius, Augustine, and Shelley, from Pagan and Christian traditions through Romantic and Spiritualist readings. \u003ci\u003eWalking through Elysium\u003c\/i\u003e asserts the deep and lasting influence of Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s underworld from the moment of its publication to the present day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Bill Gladhill, McGill University, and Micah Myers, Kenyon College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Into the Woods       \u003cbr\u003eAlessandro Barchiesi, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Statius\u0026amp;#x2019; Walking in Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s Footsteps     \u003cbr\u003eEmily Pillinger, King\u0026amp;#x2019;s College London\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Sibyl\u0026amp;#x2019;s Cave and Visions of the Future   \u003cbr\u003eMaggie Kilgour, McGill University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Exploring the Forests of Antiquity: The Golden Bough in Early Modern Literature    \u003cbr\u003eMatteo Soranzo, McGill University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Aeneas\u0026amp;#x2019; Steps       \u003cbr\u003eMiguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Universidad Complutense de Madrid\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s Underworld and the Afterlife of Love Poets   \u003cbr\u003eMicah Y. Myers, Kenyon College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Vergilian Underworlds in Ovid      \u003cbr\u003eAlison Keith, University of Toronto\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Mortem aliquid ultra est: Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s Underworld in Senecan Tragedy    \u003cbr\u003eBill Gladhill, McGill University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Servius on Sinners and Punishments in Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s Underworld  \u003cbr\u003eFabio Stok, University of Rome Tor Vergata\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Paradise and Performance in Vergil\u0026amp;#x2019;s Underworld and Horace\u0026amp;#x2019;s Carmen Saeculare \u003cbr\u003eLauren Curtis, Bard College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Why isn\u0026amp;#x2019;t Homer in Virgil\u0026amp;#x2019;s Underworld? – and Other Notable Absences      \u003cbr\u003eEmily Gowers, University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Silence of Aeneid 6 in Augustine\u0026amp;#x2019;s Confessions \u003cbr\u003eJacob L. Mackey, Occidental College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Spiritualism as Textual Practice    \u003cbr\u003eGrant Parker, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52745007071512,"sku":"9781487505776","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/walking-through-elysium-vergils-underworld-and-the-poetics-of-tradition-hardback-9781487505776","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}