Horace and the construction of the English Victorian gentleman.(Critical essay)

Helios | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

The reading, criticism, and imitation of particular classical authors formed a natural part of self-construction for the elite classes in Victorian England, since the centrality of classics in the education of the period ensured that these texts were a key element in contemporary self-fashioning. (1) In this paper I look at the role in this self-fashioning of Horace, in some ways the most congenial of Latin authors for Victorian elite subjectivity. Unlike his fellow Augustan poet Vergil, (2) Horace remained popular among general as well as scholarly readers in Victorian ...

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