Craig W. Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He is the author of In Praise of Aeneas (1989), Virgil and the Myth of Venice (2000), and The Other Virgil (2007) as well as over 30 articles on the classical tradition.

• List of Figures viiiList of Maps xNotes on Contributors xiIntroduction 1Craig W. Kallendorf1 Education 5Christopher StrayPart I: Periods 152 Middle Ages 17Jan M. Ziolkowski3 Renaissance 30Craig W. Kallendorf4 Baroque 44Ingrid D. Rowland5 Neoclassicism 57Thomas Kaminski6 Romanticism 72Bruce Graver7 Victorian 87Norman Vance8 Modernism 101Kenneth HaynesPart II: Places 1159 Africa 117William J. Dominik10 Central-Eastern Europe 132Jerzy Axer with the assistance of Katarzyna Tomaszuk11 France 156Philip Ford12 Germany and German-Speaking Europe 169Volker Riedel13 Iberian Peninsula 192Luisa López Grigera14 Italy 208David Marsh15 Latin America 222Andrew Laird16 Low Countries 237Gilbert Tournoy17 Scandinavia 252Minna Skafte Jensen18 United Kingdom 265Richard Jenkyns19 United States 279Ward BriggsPart III: Contemporary Themes 29520 Reception 297Charles Martindale21 Postcolonial Studies 312Lorna Hardwick22 Gender and Sexuality 328Alastair J. L. Blanshard23 Fascism 342Katie Fleming24 Psychology 355Fabio Stok25 Modern and Postmodern Art and Architecture 371Gail Levin26 Film 393Karl GalinskyBibliography 408Index 471