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Author | : Simon Dentith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9780511225840 |
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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.
Author | : Simon Dentith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2006-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139457098 |
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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 of the societies which produced Homeric or Northern epics not in Europe, but on the margins of empire and among its subject peoples. Dentith considers the implications of the status of epic for a range of nineteenth-century writers, including Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris and Rudyard Kipling. He also considers the relationship between epic poetry and the novel and discusses late nineteenth-century adventure novels, concluding with a brief survey of epic in the twentieth century.
Author | : Simon Dentith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2006-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521862653 |
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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 of the societies which produced Homeric or Northern epics not in Europe, but on the margins of empire and among its subject peoples. Dentith considers the implications of the status of epic for a range of nineteenth-century writers, including Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris and Rudyard Kipling. He also considers the relationship between epic poetry and the novel and discusses late nineteenth-century adventure novels, concluding with a brief survey of epic in the twentieth century.
Author | : Gregory Vargo |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107197856 |
Download An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.
Author | : Deborah Lutz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107077443 |
Download Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.
Author | : Aviva Briefel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107116589 |
Download The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fascinating study that explores the power of the racially identified hand as a narrative symbol in Victorian literature and culture.
Author | : Daniel Williams |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2024-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009436112 |
Download The Art of Uncertainty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Daniel Williams shows how, in a profoundly numerical age, Victorian novels imagined thought and action in the face of uncertainty.
Author | : Eavan O'Dochartaigh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2022-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108998674 |
Download Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Anne Stiles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108830943 |
Download Children's Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure' Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examination into how the new religious movement known as New Thought or "mind cure" influenced fin-de-siècle Anglophone children's fiction.
Author | : Charles Martindale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108835899 |
Download Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first collected study of Pater's significance to criticism, revealing his pivotal role in establishing principles of the literary essay.