Epic and empire in nineteenth-centur...
Dentith, Simon,

 

  • Epic and empire in nineteenth-century Britain /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 821/.103208
    書名/作者: Epic and empire in nineteenth-century Britain // Simon Dentith.
    其他題名: Epic & Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    作者: Dentith, Simon,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (vii, 245 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
    附註: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century
    標題: Epic literature - History and criticism.
    標題: Literature and history - Great Britain.
    標題: National characteristics, British, in literature.
    ISBN: 9780511484773 (ebook)
    內容註: 1. Homer, Ossian and modernity -- 2. Walter Scott and heroic minstrelsy -- 3. Epic translation and the National ballad metre -- 4. The matter of Britain and the search for a national epic -- 5. 'As flat as Fleet street' : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold and George Eliot on epic modernity -- 6. Mapping epic and novel -- 7. Epic and the imperial theme -- 8. Kipling, Bard of empire -- 9. Epic and the subject peoples of empire -- 10. Coda : some Homeric futures.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484773
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