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A comprehensive inquiry into how the legend of the descent from Troy has shaped the western notion of civilization.
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The Founding Legend of Western Civilization : From Virgil to Vietnam
author
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Waswo, Richard.
publisher
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Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0819552968
print isbn13
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9780819552969
ebook isbn13
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9780585265971
language
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English
subject
Civilization, Western--History, Legends--History and criticism, European literature--History and criticism, English literature--History and criticism, Historiography--Europe--History, Social sciences--Europe--Philosophy, Europe--Territorial expansion, Lan
publication date
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1997
lcc
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CB245.W28 1997eb
ddc
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909/.09812
subject
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Civilization, Western--History, Legends--History and criticism, European literature--History and criticism, English literature--History and criticism, Historiography--Europe--History, Social sciences--Europe--Philosophy, Europe--Territorial expansion, Lan
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The Founding Legend of Western Civilization
From Virgil to Vietnam
Richard Waswo
Wesleyan University Press PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND HANOVER AND LONDON
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Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1997 by Richard Waswo All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book
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There is no story that is not true. UCHENDU
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CONTENTS
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Chapter 1: The Story and the Culture
1
Part I The Formation of the Legend in Roman Antiquity
Chapter 2: Aeneas and Agriculture: Roman Archeology
15
Chapter 3: The Epic of History: Virgil's Aeneid
21
Chapter 4: The Center of the Aeneid: The Arrival of the Culture-Bringers
29
PART II The Legend As History in the Middle Ages
Chapter 5: The Legend and the Landscape: Agri- and Other Cultures
41
Chapter 6: The Unfinished City: Chronicle Histories
47
Chapter 7: The City Founded: Geoffrey of Monmouth
55
Part III Old Frontiers in New Worlds The Legend in the Renaissance
Chapter 8: Commerce and Culture: Patterns of Trade and Art
67
Chapter 9: Everybody's Genealogy: Forgers and Popularizers
74
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Chapter 10: Epic Voyages: Poets and Colonizers in the Sixteenth Century
82
Chapter 11: The Epic of Justification: Edmund Spenser
95
Chapter 12: Spectacles and Sermons: Pageants and John Donne
107
Part IV From History to Social Theory The Death and Rebirth of the Legend
Chapter 13: Exit History Past: Neoclassic Historiography in England and France
119
Chapter 14: Enter History Present: Providential Historiography in the Eighteenth Century
127
Chapter 15: Myth in Law: From Victoria to Locke
136
Chapter 16: Law in Myth: Alexander Pope
150
Chapter 17: Concealing and Revealing: Richardson's Fiction and Vattel's Law
173
Chapter 18: Theorizing: The Scottish Enlightenment
186
Chapter 19: Observing: French Jesuits in North America
196
Chapter 20: Overlooking: William Robertson and America
209
Part V The Legend Triumphantand Protested
Chapter 21: Overlooking in Other Directions: Humanitarians and Africa
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