Chappell,Lindsey N. — Temporal forms and the nineteenth-century Mediterranean. Writing British heritage in ancient lands.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024. X,300 pp. Few b./w. ills. Hardcover. (Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 149).This study is the first to explore the Mediterranean and its ubiquity in nineteenth-century British literature. Lindsey N. Chappell recovers the region's centrality to Romantic and Victorian constructions of the past, the present, and the shape of time itself, revealing how classical and biblical heritage shaped British imperialism. [Publisher].