Epic And Empire In Nineteenth Century Britain

Author : Simon Dentith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139457098
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Simon Dentith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Simon Dentith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521862653
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Simon Dentith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jonathan Farina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107181631
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Jonathan Farina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.

Author : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107184088
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Lucy Hartley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.

Author : Adela Pinch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139489089
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing written by Adela Pinch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thing to do. In this book, Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or desirable, to believe that thinking about another person could affect them. She explains why nineteenth-century British writers - poets, novelists, philosophers, psychologists, devotees of the occult - were both attracted to and repulsed by radical or substantial notions of purely mental relations between persons, and why they moralized about the practice of thinking about other people in interesting ways. Working at the intersection of literary studies and philosophy, this book both sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Victorian literature and thought, and explores the consequences of, and the value placed on, this strand of thinking about thinking.

Author : Lauren Gillingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009296566
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel written by Lauren Gillingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

Author : San Diego Bakhtin Circle
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754474
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bakhtin and the Nation written by San Diego Bakhtin Circle and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The end of the twentieth century is marked by historic changes in nation-states and in the concepts of the nation and of nationalism. The ten essays in this volume give to the reader an inquiry into the problem of the nation with, and sometimes surpassing, the help of Russian philosopher Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Kristin D. Hussey
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988445
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Bodies in London written by Kristin D. Hussey and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth between Britain and its growing imperial territories. The introduction of steam-powered vessels, and deep-docks to accommodate them at London ports, significantly reduced travel time for colonists and imperial servants traveling home to see their families, enjoy a period of study leave, or recuperate from the tropical climate. With their minds enervated by the sun, livers disrupted by the heat, and blood teeming with parasites, these patients brought the empire home and, in doing so, transformed medicine in Britain. With Imperial Bodies in London, Kristin D. Hussey offers a postcolonial history of medicine in London. Following mobile tropical bodies, her book challenges the idea of a uniquely domestic medical practice, arguing instead that British medicine was imperial medicine in the late Victorian era. Using the analytic tools of geography, she interrogates sites of encounter across the imperial metropolis to explore how medical research and practice were transformed and remade at the crossroads of empire.

Author : Gregory Vargo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107197856
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction written by Gregory Vargo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.

Author : Deborah Lutz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077443
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Deborah Lutz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.