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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tucker, Herbert F.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Epic poetry, English > History and criticism. Poésie épique anglaise > Histoire et critique. POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Epic poetry, English Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The very idea: epic in the head
On Calliope's jalopy: epic rebuilt 1790-1800
Under correction: epic conscripted 1800-1805
In expiation: epic atonement 1805-1815
In style: epic plush 1815-1820
To the ending doom: epic apocalypse 1820-1830
In session : forensic epic 1830-1840
There and back: emigrant epic 1840-1850
On impulse: spasmodic epic 1850-1860
In plight of troth: mythological epic 1860-1870
For all the world : eclectic epic 1870-1895
At long last: Edwardian epic 1895-1910.