Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)

by Simon Dentith

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In the nineteenth century, 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 evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalents...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521123577

ISBN13:9780521123570

Release Date:November 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:260 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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