[PDF.86tx] Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

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 | #7501252 in Books |  2006-07-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.75 x5.98l,1.21 | File type: PDF | 258 pages

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|| |"A thorough, insightful analysis of the collision between an ancient poetic genre and the modern British world." -- Choice|About the Author|Simon Dentith is Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire.

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 of the societies which ...

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