...Marc Bizer It had been the dream of the sixteenth-century Pléiade poets to glorify their country and literature by composing a “long French poem,” a term that designated a genre resembling epic but that also included romance. In the 1550s, not only Pierre de Ronsard, who had received an official...

...Heinz Politzer Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 HOW EPIC IS BERTOLT BRECHT’S EPIC THEATER? By HEINZPOLITZER When Bertolt Brecht died in East Berlin, on August 14, 1956, he left behind an impressive literary work, a new method of...

... the development of markets and publics in early modern Europe. Richard Hakluyt’s Navigations in Time: History, Epic, and Empire David Harris Sacks udged in terms of its literary reputation as well as its own expressed Jintentions, Richard Hakluyt’s often celebrated Principal...

...Hoyt Trowbridge H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in English, Vol. XV, 1944. Pp. xiv + 396. $4.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 The Theory of the Epic in England, 1650-1800. By H. T. SI~EDES- BERG, JR. Berkeley...

...Adam Roberts Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse, 1790 – 1910 . By Herbert F. Tucker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. viii + 737 pp. University of Washington 2009 Adam Roberts is professor of nineteenth-century literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published on...

...Cassidy Picken Cassidy Picken is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill . By Adams Edward . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2011 . x + 322 pp...

...G. W. Pigman, III David Quint. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. x + 433 pp. $49.50 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Formcfim Virgil to Milton. By David Quint. Princeton, N.J...

...Gordon Braden Colin Burrow. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. x + 325 pp. $53.00. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Epic Romance: Homer to Milton. By Colin Burrow. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. x + 325 pp- $53.00. Burrow’s subtitle has an old-fashioned sound, though...

... theory. She is currently working on the construction of romanticism in contemporary culture. Romantic Constructions and Epic Subversions in Geoffrey Hill’s MdanHymns Karen A. Weisman If deconstruction, for the most part, ironized the romantic text- that is, if...

...David Mikics John Watkins. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995. xi + 208 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Reviews The Specter OfDido: Spenser and Virgiliun Epic. By John Watkins. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995. xi + 208 pp...

... Fire: The Elemental Sublime in Swinburne’s Arthurian Tale and Bal’mont’s Medieval Georgian Epic Martin Bidney s Edward W. Said’s Orientalism and his more recent Culture and A Imperialism make clear, the postcolonial literary historian enjoys opportunities...

... that properly belongs in footnotes. DOROTHYBROWN ASPINWALL The College of Idaho The Epic in Nineteenth-Century France. A Study in Heroic and Humanitarian Poetry from “Les Martyrs” to “Les Sikcles Morts.” By HERBERTJ. HUNT. Oxford: Basil Blackwell...

...Gordon Teskey The Ruins of Allegory: “Paradise Lost” and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention . By Catherine Gimelli Martin. Durham,N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. xii + 385 pp. $69.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-05Reviews.ak 5/26/00 5:16 PM...

...Chris R. Vanden Bossche Mark Cumming. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. xvi + 188 pp. $28.95. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 404 REVIEWS A Disimpnsoned Epic: Form and Vision in Carlyle’s...

...George W. Umphrey Arturo Torres-Ríoseco. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. vii + 279. $2.25. © 1943 University of Washington 1943 240 Reviews The Epic of Latin-American Literature. By ARTUROTORRES- RfosEco. New York : Oxford University Press...

...James T. Hillhouse F. Fiske Christabel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. Pp. ix + 141. $2.50. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 142 Reviews Epic Suggestion in the Imagery of the Waverley Novels. By CHRISTABELF. FISKE. New Haven: Yale...

...Brian Vickers MURRIN MICHAEL. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980. xii + 275 pp. $23.00. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 REVIEWS The Allegorical Epic: Essays in Its Rise and Decline. By MICHAELMURRIN. Chi- cago and London...

...Alan F. Nagel David Thompson. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. xi + 83 pp. $4.95. Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 REVIEWS Dcink’s Epic Journeys. By DAVIDTHOMPSON. Haltimore ancl London: .Johns Hopkins...

... treatment of the rebellion and war in Heaven in books 5 and 6. Here too he makes fresh points, relating Milton’s zealous and faithful angel Abdiel, who openly spurns Satan’s rebellion and armed aggression, to the depictions of Nicodemus in both the Gospel of John (7:50–52) and Vida’s sixteenth-century epic...

... congratulated on this book; it is a careful, com- petent piece of work. KEMPMALONE Johns Hopkins University Beowdf : the Oldest English Epic. Translated into Alliterative Verse by CHARLESW. KENNEDY,Murray Professor of English Literature in...