Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Informationen zum Autor Simon Dentith is Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire. Klappentext The epic genre continued to be important in the nineteenth century despite its apparent anachronism. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Homer, Ossian and modernity; 2. Walter Scott and heroic minstrelsy; 3. Epic translation and the national ballad metre; 4. The matter of Britain and the search for a national epic; 5. 'As flat as Fleet Street': Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold and George Eliot on epic and modernity; 6. Mapping epic and novel; 7. Epic and the imperial theme; 8. Kipling, Bard of Empire; 9. Epic and the subject peoples of Empire; 10. Coda: some Homeric futures; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Professor Simon Dentith, Simon Dentith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2006
• EAN: 9780521862653
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86265-3
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies