{"product_id":"epic-and-empire-politics-and-generic-form-from-virgil-to-milton-paperback","title":"Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Quint\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e itself, Camoes's \u003ci\u003eLusíadas\u003c\/i\u003e, Tasso's \u003ci\u003eGerusalemme liberata\u003c\/i\u003e) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's \u003ci\u003ePharsalia\u003c\/i\u003e, Ercilla's \u003ci\u003eAraucana\u003c\/i\u003e, and d'Aubigné's \u003ci\u003eLes tragiques\u003c\/i\u003e). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with \"romance,\" the story told of and by the defeated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Quint situates \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParadise Regained\u003c\/i\u003e within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, \u003ci\u003eAlexander Nevsky\u003c\/i\u003e. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, \u003ci\u003eEpic and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Quint\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOrigin and Originality in Renaissance Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Yale) and \u003ci\u003eThe Stanze of Angelo Poliziano\u003c\/i\u003e (Massachusetts).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.18 x 5.97 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47452277211314,"sku":"9780691015200","price":116.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/08438280becce7f9f2a5b933e0692c43.webp?v=1778812395","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/epic-and-empire-politics-and-generic-form-from-virgil-to-milton-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}