THE OTHER VIRGIL: 'Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture.

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'The Other Virgil describes the way in which 'pessimistic' readings of the Aeneid allowed some early modern readers to use this poem to question and challenge the dominant political, social, and cultural forces of their day. [...] Craig Kallendorf's analysis is based on close textual analysis, but also links work on the relationship of Virgil and Augustus, and on Aeneid as a poem of colonization, to Foucault, post-colonial theory, and the 'new historicism', thereby bringing classical and early modern literary texts into dialogue with contemporary literary theory.' (publisher's blurb)