Giving Day Highlight: New Book Published by Prof. Uden
In September 2020, Prof. Uden published his book Spectres of Antiquity: Classical Literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830 with Oxford University Press. The project is in the spirit of many other research projects from the BU Classical Studies department, focusing in broad humanistic terms on the Classical Tradition and the afterlife of ancient works in art, poetry, novels and drama. Prof. Uden’s book focuses on the Gothic genre, the sensational stories of crumbling castles and evil monks that dominated British and American publishing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Spectres of Antiquity is the first-ever monograph to detail allusions to Greece and Rome in this genre of literature. It aims to be an introduction to the Gothic for readers of ancient literature, and a survey of literary memories of Greece and Rome for readers of the Gothic
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