Caesar in the USA

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-27391-7
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning, admired and evoked as a gateway to knowledge of politics, war, and even national life. In this lively and perceptive book, the first to examine Caesar's place in modern American culture, Maria Wyke investigates how his use has intensified in periods of political crisis, when the occurrence of assassination, war, dictatorship, totalitarianism or empire appears to give him fresh relevance. Her fascinating discussion shows how—from the Latin classroom to the Shakespearean stage, from cinema, television and the comic book to the internet—Caesar is mobilized in the U.S. as a resource for acculturation into the American present, as a prediction of America’s future, or as a mode of commercial profit and great entertainment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wyke, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Education

1. Maturation
2. Americanization
3. Militarism

Part II. Political Culture

4. Dictatorship
5. Totalitarianism
6. Presidential Power
7. Empire

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London.