Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire, and Victorian Epic Poetry

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Manchester University Press, 1998 - 194 Seiten
Examines the cultural and national politics of the epic poem in the imperial context of the Victorian period. Tests and adapts Bakhtin's theory of epic as a national and monologic form by discussing the meeting of colonial discourses in epic poems originating from England--Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1869), Ireland--Samuel Ferguson's Congal (1872), and India--Edwin Arnold's Indian Idylls (1883) and The Song Celestial (1885). Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Introduction
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Tennyson empire and epic
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Idylls of the King
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