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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
52. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 245 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511226410 0511226411 0511224559 9780511224553 0511225229 9780511225222 0511225849 9780511225840 9780511484773 0511484771 1280541458 9781280541452 0511317255 9780511317255 9780521123570 0521123577 |