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

Graham, Colin

9780719052859: Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719052858 ISBN 13: 9780719052859

Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr, 1762

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 c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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