Epic : Britain's heroic muse, 1790-1910 / Herbert F. Tucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, Herbert F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, English--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (748 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 interruption across the long nineteenth century by nearly every prominent Romantic and Victorian poet, and shoals of ambitious poetasters into the bargain. Poets kept the epic alive by revisingits conventions to meet an overlapping series of changing realities: insurgent democracy, Napoleonic war, the rise

Contents:

Contents; A Note on Parenthetical References in the Text; 1. The Very Idea: Epic in the Head; 2. On Calliope's Jalopy: Epic Rebuilt 1790-1800; 3. Under Correction: Epic Conscripted 1800-1805; 4. In Expiation: Epic Atonement 1805-1815; 5. In Style: Epic Plush 1815-1820; 6. To the Ending Doom: Epic Apocalypse 1820-1830; 7. In Session: Forensic Epic 1830-1840; 8. There and Back: Emigrant Epic 1840-1850; 9. On Impulse: Spasmodic Epic 1850-1860; 10. In Plight of Troth: Mythological Epic 1860-1870; 11. For All the World: Eclectic Epic 1870-1895; 12. At Long Last: Edwardian Epic 1895-1910

Bibliography of Poems CitedSecondary Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [602]-668) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-923299-7

9786611852719

0-19-152840-4

1-281-85271-6

OCLC:

234301304