The History of the Epic

This is a narrative history of the development of the genre from antiquity into the present day. The volume parallels the development of the epic with wider historical and cultural developments, providing detailed readings of key texts, and, while structured chronologically, tracing a series of themes through the development of the genre.

Adeline Johns-Putra is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK.

Foreword * Introduction * Origins: The Classical Age * The Renaissance: The Rise of the Epic * The Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Epic Translations and Mock Epics * The Nineteenth Century: Epic and Novel * The Twentieth Century I: Modernist Epics, Postcolonial Epics, Epic Theatre * The Twentieth Century II: Epic Film * Chronology * Suggested Further Reading

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The History of the Epic

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