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Book Title: Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Book Author: Simon Dentith (Author) Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Book 52) Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (July 10, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0521862655 ISBN-13: 978-0521862653 Book Description 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.  Review "A thorough, insightful analysis of the collision between an ancient poetic genre and the modern British world." -- Choice About the Author Simon Dentith is Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire. Sharing Widget |