Epic and empire in nineteenth-century Britain / Simon Dentith.
Epic and empire in nineteenth-century Britain / Simon Dentith.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N821.1032/1
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English
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vii, 245 p.
Contents
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 modern...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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England
Date Published
2006.
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"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. Dentith considers the implications of the status of epic for a range of nineteenth-century writers, including Walter Sc...
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Epic and empire in nineteenth-century Britain / Simon Dentith.
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 52.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N821.1032/1
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74VKKDNLx3Eb
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9780521862653 (cased) :
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821.103208
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991021745219702626
