In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was
widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian
authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith
explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of
Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the
apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe
of the First World War. Paradoxically, writers found equivalents of
the societies which produced Homeric or Northern epics not in
Europe, but on the margins of empire and among its subject peoples.
Dentith considers the implications of the status of epic for a
range of nineteenth-century writers, including Walter Scott,
Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Morris and
Rudyard Kipling. He also considers the relationship between epic
poetry and the novel and discusses late nineteenth-century
adventure novels, concluding with a brief survey of epic in the
twentieth century.
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