Description: This cultural history of the American empire via ancient Rome tracks the way writers and artists have imagined Roman antiquity as an analogy that variously bolsters and critiques American imperial power.
Review Quotes: "Time and Antiquity in American Empire is a fascinating inquiry into the multiple -- and often unexpected -- ways in which Roman analogies are germane to US imperial discourse. It is undoubtedly a major intervention in the political history of classical models, and it makes a compelling contribution to our understanding of transatlantic historical time." -- Ronan Ludot-Vlasak, Transatlantica
"Time and Antiquity in American Empire is a fascinating inquiry into the multiple-and often unexpected-ways in which Roman analogies are germane to US imperial discourse. It is undoubtedly a major intervention in the political history of classical models, and it makes a compelling contribution to our understanding of transatlantic historical time." -- Ronan Ludot-Vlasak, Transatlantica "Time and Antiquity in American Empire asks us to reimagine the ways we might undertake comparative literature, by, as Walter Benjamin invokes, 'grasp[ing] the constellation which [our] own era has formed with a definite earlier one' in an analogical network of dynamic, overlapping and ever-unfurling significance." -- Andrew Taylor, The Review of English Studies"Time and Antiquity is a worthwhile read in the now vast body of work redefining our relationship to the ancient world. It will be of interest not only to American literary historians and to those with a specific interest in America's relationship to the Greco-Roman world." -- Thomas Munro, Yale Department of Classics