by Laurence Goldstein
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977
eISBN: 978-0-8229-7616-5 | Paper: 978-0-8229-8461-0 | Cloth: 978-0-8229-3345-8
Library of Congress Classification PR449.R9G6
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art.