Epic and empire: politics and generic form from Virgil to Milton
Epic and empire: versions of actium -- Repetition and ideology in the Aeneid -- The epic curse and Camões' adamastor -- Epics of the defeated: the other tradition of Lucan, Ercilla, and d'Aubigné -- Political allegory in the Gerusalemme liberata -- Tasso, Milton, and the boat of romance --...
| Summary: | Epic and empire: versions of actium -- Repetition and ideology in the Aeneid -- The epic curse and Camões' adamastor -- Epics of the defeated: the other tradition of Lucan, Ercilla, and d'Aubigné -- Political allegory in the Gerusalemme liberata -- Tasso, Milton, and the boat of romance -- Paradise lost and the fall of the English commonwealth -- David's census: Milton's politics and Paradise regained -- Ossian, medieval "epic", and Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-426) and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 433 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-22295-0 0-691-22295-9 |
