{"product_id":"time-and-antiquity-in-american-mark-storey-9780198871507","title":"Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux","description":"This is a book about two empires--America and Rome--and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, \u003cem\u003eTime and Antiquity in American Empire\u003c\/em\u003e reconfigures our understanding of how cultural and political life has generated an analogy between Roman antiquity and the imperial US state--both to justify and perpetuate it, and to resist and critique it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book takes in a wide scope, from theories of historical time and imperial culture, through the twin political pillars of American empire--republicanism and slavery--to the popular genres that have reimagined America's and Rome's sometimes strange orbit: Christian fiction, travel writing, and science fiction. Through this conjunction of literary history, classical reception studies, and the philosophy of history, however, \u003cem\u003eTime and Antiquity in American Empire\u003c\/em\u003e builds a more fundamental inquiry: about how we imagine both our politics and ourselves within historical time. It outlines a new relationship between text and context, and between history and culture; one built on the oscillating, dialectical logic of the analogy, and on a spatialising of historical temporality through the metaphors of constellations and networks. Offering a fresh reckoning with the historicist protocols of literary study, this book suggests that recognizing the shape of history we step into when we analogize with the past is also a way of thinking about how we have read--and how we might yet read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Storey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198871503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198871507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2021","brand":"Mark Storey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982472773887,"sku":"9780198871507","price":93.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c53b5f17-af7c-4cb4-9c36-7033de966364.jpg?v=1683261357","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/time-and-antiquity-in-american-mark-storey-9780198871507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}