Slavery and the Roman literary imagination / / William Fitzgerald [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Fitzgerald William <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 129 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 870.9/3520625
• Soggetto topico: Latin literature - History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Slavery - Rome - History; Enslaved persons - Rome
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-125) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: living with slaves; CHAPTER 1. The other self: proximity and symbiosis; CHAPTER 2. Punishment: license, (self-) control and fantasy; CHAPTER 3. Slaves between the free; CHAPTER 4. The continuum of (servile) relationships; CHAPTER 5. Enslavement and metamorphosis; Epilogue; Bibliography; General index; Index of passages discussed
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the presence of slaves and slavery in Roman literature and asks particularly what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. As a shadow humanity, slaves furnished the free with other selves and imaginative alibis as well as mediators between and substitutes for their peers. As presences that witnessed their owners' most unguarded moments they possessed a knowledge that was the object of both curiosity and anxiety. The book discusses not only the ideological relations of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, but also the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for a range of other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself. It is arranged thematically and covers a broad chronological and generic field.
• Altri titoli varianti: Slavery & the Roman Literary Imagination
• Titolo autorizzato: Slavery and the Roman literary imagination
• ISBN: 1-107-11893-X; 1-280-42111-8; 0-511-17333-4; 0-511-04073-3; 0-511-15239-6; 0-511-32335-2; 0-511-61254-0; 0-511-04927-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782928203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Roman literature and its contexts.