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Index
Cover
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Discipline and Revolution: Classics in Victorian Culture
Part 1. Art And Desire
Chapter One: The Art of Reception: J. W. Waterhouse and the Painting of Desire in Victorian Britain
Fleshliness and Purity
Visualizing Desire, Elsewhere
Off the Chocolate Box
Chapter Two: The Touch of Sappho
Viewed in the Light of Greece
Touching
Sappho on the Strand
Part 2. Music And Cultural Politics
Chapter Three: Who Killed Chevalier Gluck?
Revolutionary Opera
The Art of Crying and the Happy Ending
Disinterring a Classic
The German Way
London Fashion
Chapter Four: Wagner’s Greeks: The Politics of Hellenism
“To be half a day a Greek!”
Staging the Sonderweg
Endeavoring to Forget
Part 3. Fiction: Victorian Novels Of Ancient Rome
Chapter Five: For God and Empire
Every Book Needs a Hero
Whose History?
Fictionalizing the Past
Chapter Six: Virgins, Lions, and Honest Pluck
The Knebworth Apollo
The Fiction of the Church
The Best-Selling Novel in America
The Harry Potter Effect
Jews, Egyptians, and Other Clichés of the Popular Sublime
Seven: Only Connect!
The Life of the Author
Victoria’s Historian, Darwin’s Parson
The Fight for the Middle Ground
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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