Epic and Empire : : Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton / / David Quint.
Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Qu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literature in History ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE. EPIC AND THE WINNERS
- ONE. EPIC AND EMPIRE: VERSIONS OF ACTIUM
- TWO. REPETITION AND IDEOLOGY IN THE AENEID
- PART TWO. EPIC AND THE LOSERS
- THREE. THE EPIC CURSE AND CAMOES' ADAMASTOR
- FOUR. EPICS OF THE DEFEATED: THE OTHER TRADITION OF LUCAN, ERCILLA, AND D'AUBIGNE
- PART THREE. TASSO AND MILTON
- FIVE. POLITICAL ALLEGORY IN THE GERUSALEMME LIBERATA
- SIX. TASSO, MILTON, AND THE BOAT OF ROMANCE
- SEVEN. PARADISE LOST AND THE FALL OF THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH
- EIGHT. DAVID'S CENSUS: MILTON'S POLITICS AND PARADISE REGAINED
- PART FOUR. A MODERN EPILOGUE
- NINE. OSSIAN, MEDIEVAL "EPIC," AND EISENSTEIN'S ALEXANDER NEVSKY
- NOTES
- INDEX