Epic : Britain's heroic muse, 1790-1910 /
This book is the first to provide a connected history of epic poetry in Britain between the French Revolution and the First World War. Although epic is widely held to have been shouldered aside by the novel, if not invalidated in advance by modernity, in fact the genre was practised without interrup...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book is the first to provide a connected history of epic poetry in Britain between the French Revolution and the First World War. Although epic is widely held to have been shouldered aside by the novel, if not invalidated in advance by modernity, in fact the genre was practised without interruption across the long nineteenth century by nearly every prominent Romantic and Victorian poet, and shoals of ambitious poetasters into the bargain. Poets kept the epic alive by revisingits conventions to meet an overlapping series of changing realities: insurgent democracy, Napoleonic war, the rise. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 737 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 602-668) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191528408 0191528404 9780199232987 0199232989 9780191716447 0191716448 0199232997 9780199232994 9786611852719 6611852719 1281852716 9781281852717 |