Epic and empire in nineteenth-century Britain /

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,...

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Main Author: Dentith, Simon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 52.
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