Ruins and Empire

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Ruins and Empire is written by Laurence Goldstein and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822976161 (ISBN 10) and 9780822976165 (ISBN 13).

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.