Decadence as a theory of history

New Literary History

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 573-585

  Morley, Neville ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60950603780     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2005.0008     Document Type: Review

References (41)

1. R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1946), 63-68 on Vico, 159-65 on Toynbee, 181-83 on Spengler
2. Generally, Richard Gilman, Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet (London: Seeker & Warburg, 1979)
3. Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, vol. 1, Form and Actuality, trans. Charles Francis Atkinson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), 4
4. Spengler, Decline, 26
5. Compare Neville Morley, Writing Ancient History (London: Duckworth, 1999), 12-13, 111-27
6. G. R. Elton, The Practice of History (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1967), 47
7. E. H. Carr, What is History? (London: Macmillan, 1961), 43
8. A. L. Rowse, The Use of History (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1946), 79-80
9. Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978)
10. Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995)
11. Wolfgang Liebeschuetz, "The End of the Ancient City," in The City in Late Antiquity, ed. John Rich (London: Routledge, 1992), 1-49
12. Compare Ramsay MacMullen, "Quantifying Decline," in Corruption and the Decline of Rome (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988), 1-15
13. Collingwood, Idea of History, 164-65
14. Compare Berkhofer, Beyond, and Alex Callinicos, Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of History (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995)
15. Ian Morris, "Hard Surfaces," in Money, Labour and Land: Approaches to the Economies of Ancient Greece, ed. Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen, and Lin Foxhall (London: Routledge, 2002), 8-43
16. Berkhofer, Beyond, 126-27
17. Generally, Paul Hamilton, Historicism (London: Routledge, 1996)
18. Gilman, Decadence, 5
19. James I. Porter, The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on "The Birth of Tragedy " (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000), especially 102-6
20. Pierre Chaunu, Histoire et décadence (Paris: Perrin, 1981), 165
21. See, for example, Morris Berman, The Twilight of American Culture (London: Duckworth, 2000)
22. On medievalists, see Norman F. Cantor, Inventing the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1991), 79-117
23. Arnold J. Toynbee, Civilization on Trial (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1948)
24. M. I. Rostovtzeff, Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957), 541
25. Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life," in Untimely Meditations, ed. David Breazeale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 107-8
26. G. W. F. Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History, trans. Leo Rauch (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1988), 57
27. Morley, "Political Economy and Classical Antiquity," Journal of the History of Ideas 59, no. 1 (1998): 95-114
28. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (London: Chatto & Windus, 1973)
29. William Morris, News from Nowhere, or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance (London: Routledge, 1970)
30. Morley, "Marx and the Failure of Antiquity," Helios 26, no. 2 (1999): 151-64
31. Speech at the anniversary of the People's Paper (1856), in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works, vol. 14 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1980), 655-56
32. Marx, Grundrisse, trans. Martin Nicolaus (London: Penguin, 1973), 111
33. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Works in One Volume (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1968), 93, 95
34. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000), 225-88
35. Nietzsche, "Uses and Disadvantages," 101
36. Morley, "'Unhistorical Greeks': Myth, History and the Uses of Antiquity," in Nietzsche and Antiquity, ed. Paul Bishop (Woodbridge, UK: Camden House, 2004), 7-26
37. Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire, 95
38. Nietzsche, "Uses and Disadvantages," 62
39. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Talcott Parsons (London: Routledge, 1992), 182
40. Compare Lawrence A. Scaff, Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)
41. Compare David Weir, Decadence and the Making of Modernism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), 202: "What is progress now but a desire to go backward to a time when it was possible to go forward?"