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Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Centur...

Beer, Gillian.

Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Author:	Dentith, Simon.
other author:	Beer, Gillian.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2006.
Description:	259 p.
Subject:	English literature.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511484773 (electronic bk.)

Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Dentith, Simon.

Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2006. - 259 p.

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Homer, Ossian and Modernity; Chapter 2 Walter Scott and Heroic Minstrelsy; Chapter 3 Epic Translation and the National Ballad Metre; Chapter 4 The Matter of Britain and the Search for a National Epic; Chapter 5 'As Flat as Fleet Street': Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold and George Eliot on Epic and Modernity; Chapter 6 Mapping Epic and Novel; Chapter 7 Epic and the Imperial Theme; Chapter 8 Kipling, Bard of Empire; Chapter 9 Epic and the Subject Peoples of Empire

Epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the British national identity in the works of Scott, Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Morris and Kipling.

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Available via World Wide Web.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780511484773 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

181224
English literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR451 .D46 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 821.103208

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