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The History of the Epic

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Adeline Johns-Putra
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Histories of Literature (Palgrave Histories of Literature)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: What is the Epic?

    • Adeline Johns-Putra
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Classical Age: Beginnings

    • Adeline Johns-Putra
    Pages 12-48

  4. The Middle Ages and Renaissance: Epic in the Christian Era

    • Adeline Johns-Putra
    Pages 49-83

  5. The Eighteenth Century: Epic in the Modern World

    • Adeline Johns-Putra
    Pages 84-113

  6. The Nineteenth Century: Epic and the Self

    • Adeline Johns-Putra
    Pages 114-154

  7. The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Modernist Epic

    • Adeline Johns-Putra
    Pages 155-187

  8. The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Epic Film

    • Adeline Johns-Putra
    Pages 188-214

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 215-259
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About this book

This book presents a history of the epic from the classical age to the present day. It deals not just with the well-know epics of antiquity and the Renaissance, but also pursues developments in more recent literature and film. It offers an exploration of the changes that have taken place in the genre from Homer to Hollywood.

About the author

ADELINE JOHNS-PUTRA is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Heroes and Housewives: Women's Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (2001), and has also published articles on gender and genre in the Romantic age.

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