000			01201cam a2200229 i 4500
008			200812s2021 enka b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9780198871507 _qhbk
041			_aeng
082	0	4	_a810.93581 _bSTO
100	1		_aStorey, Mark
245	1	0	_aTime and antiquity in American Empire : _bRoma redux / _cMark Storey.
250			_a1stedition.
300			_avi, 256 pages : _billustrations; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aOxford studies in American literary history
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
520			_aThis 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.
650		0	_aAmerican literature
650		0	_aImperialism in literature.
650		7	_aAmerican literature.
650		7	_aImperialism in literature.
942			_cENGLISH
999			_c567432 _d567432