Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Simon Dentith

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nonfiction classics history literary poetry
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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 evolu...

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