Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Simon Dentith
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.-
London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 18851914
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Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology
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Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture
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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
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Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability
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Victorian Masculinities
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The Victorian Parlour
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Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
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Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud
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Birdsong, Speech and Poetry
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Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany
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An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction
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Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 18801920
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Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture
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The Brontes and the Idea of the Human
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Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question
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From Dickens to Dracula
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The Gothic Body
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience
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Children's Literature and the Rise of Mind Cure'
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Remaking Queen Victoria
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Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature
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Writing Arctic Disaster
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Muscular Christianity
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Victorian Photography, Painting and Poetry
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The Art of Uncertainty
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Changing the Climate at the Fin de Siècle
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John Milton in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture
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The Nineteenth-Century Asylum Periodical
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Britain in 1859
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Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture
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Poetry, Media, and the Material Body
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Dickens's Style
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The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
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Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910
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Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape
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Evolution and Victorian Culture
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Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
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Victorian Women and Wayward Reading
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The Art of the Reprint
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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust
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China and the Victorian Imagination
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The Silver Fork Novel
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Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
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Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900
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Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature
Review of the hardback: 'Dentith's reading of the late-Victorian imperial adventure story … is extremely perceptive, and leads into an illuminating discussion of the divided consciousness at work in TE. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom …' Literature & History
'In this cogent and clearly written book Simon Dentith gives a convincing account of the part played by epic in nineteenth-century literature and culture, which he shows to have been larger than we might casually assume.' The Journal of William Morris Studies
'In this cogent and clearly written book Simon Dentith gives a convincing account of the part played by epic in nineteenth-century literature and culture, which he shows to have been larger than we might casually assume.' The Journal of William Morris Studies
Simon Dentith is Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521862653 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521862655 |
| Title | Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain |
| Author | Simon Dentith |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2006-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 258 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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