Feeling and classical philology: knowing antiquity in German scholarship, 1770–1920
Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. In this book, Constanze Güthenke shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity have lastingly shaped modern professional reading habits, notions of biography, and...
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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