TY  - BOOK
AU  - Storey,Mark
TI  - Time and antiquity in American Empire: Roma redux 
T2  - Oxford studies in American literary history
SN  - 9780198871507
U1  - 810.93581 
KW  - American literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index
N2  - This is a book about two empires--ancient Rome and the United States--and what happens to historical time when we think about them together. Ranging from the present day to the late eighteenth century, it tracks how the political and cultural imagination turned Roman antiquity into an object of mutual recognition--an analogy--for the imperial US state, sometimes for the sake of its justification and perpetuation, and sometimes as a tool of critique and resistance.
ER  -