{"product_id":"walking-through-elysium-bill-gladhill-9781487505776","title":"Walking Through Elysium: Vergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalking through Elysium\u003c\/em\u003e stresses the subtle and intricate ways writers across time and space wove Vergil'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'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in this volume speak to Vergil'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'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's underworld from the moment of its publication to the present day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Gladhill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487505779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487505776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Bill Gladhill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46617959366911,"sku":"9781487505776","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3eabcd54-2104-46f8-b2ab-37bb22d73f09.jpg?v=1740068797","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walking-through-elysium-bill-gladhill-9781487505776","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}