...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...

... 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, 1941. Pp. xii + 446. $6.25...

... and Heroic Tragedy. By TRUSTENWHEELER Rus- SELL. New York : Columbia University Press, 1946. Pp. viii + 178. $2.50. The belief that Voltaire’s dramas were influenced chiefly by Shake- speare is denied by this book, which attempts to prove that the connec- tions between Voltaire and Dryden...

...Thomas P. Haviland © 1954 University of Washington 1954 ELKANAH SETTLE AND THE LEAST HEROIC ROMANCE By THOMASP. HAVILAND Of those heroic romances at once the delight and guide of circles prkcieuses, not only in their native France but in seventeenth-century...

...Bennett A. Brockman Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 “HEROIC” AND “CHRISTIAN” IN GENESIS A THE EVIDENCE OF THE CAIN AND ABEL EPISODE By BENNETTA. BROCKMAN The continuing problem of Christian versus pagan in Old...

...: Unamuno and the Heroic Will. By VICTOROUIMEITE. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Komanic Studies, Second Series, 24, 1974. xvii + 237 pp. $12.50. How is one to grasp the essentially ungraspable and maddeningly paradox- ical don Miguel de Unamuno? Is it possible...

...Edward Pechter S. IDE RICHARD. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. xvi + 253 pp. $16.50. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 REVIEWS Possessed with Greatness: The Heroic Tragedies of Chapman and Shakespeare. By RICHARDS...

...Lawrence Poston S. HAIR DONALD. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1981. viii + 251 pp. $25.00. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 LAWRENCE POSTON 3 9 5 Domestic and Heroic in Tenriyson’s Poet By L...

...Michael D. Cherniss Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 HEROIC IDEALS AND THE MORAL CLIMATE OF GENESZS B By MICHAELD. CHERNISS NO one has ever seriously challenged the critical view that the major- ity of Old...

...Peter Milward Reuben A. Brower. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. xi + 424 pp. $10.50 Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 REVIEWS Hero and Saint: Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman Heroic Tradition. By KEUBENA. BROWER.New...

.... ROBERTJ. CLEMENTS New York University The Heroic Image in Five Shakespearean Tragedies. By ~C~ATTHEW N. PROSER.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. v + 254 lip. $6.00; 48s. Sooner or later a book had to be written from this standpoint, and hiatthew Proser’s study...

...Warren L. Chernaik Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 THE HEROIC OCCASIONAL POEM PANEGYRIC AND SATIRE IN THE RESTORATION By WARRENL. CHERNAIK The development of satire during the neoclassical period was to a great...

...Jonathan Bishop Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 THE HEROIC IDEAL IN DOUGHTY’S ARABIA DESERTA By JONATHAN BISHOP Anne Treneer’s book on Charles Doughty is still the most recent full-length study of that British writer, and it is more...

... a Renaissance dissection. But Macklem resolutely refuses to follow out the implications of his thesis and thus limits both its interest and importance. HERBERTWEISINCER Michigan State University Heroic Knowledge: An Interpretation...

.... VICTORE. HANZELI University of Washington The Geographical and Ethnic Names in the Pidriks Saga: A Study in Germanic Heroic Legend. By WILLIAMJ. PAFF. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, Harvard Germanic Studies, Vol. 11, 1959. Pp. vi + 238. $6.00. PiBriks saga, which is one...

...Martin S. Day THE INFLUENCE OF MASON’S HEROIC EPISTLE By MARTINS. DAY In the introduction to the collected satires of William Mason in 1805, Almon, the editor, asserted: “It may, without impropriety, be observed that the Heroic Epistle to Sir William...

... and scholarly “catalogue” are essential. T. H. JONES University College of Wales, Aberystwyth The Triumph of Form: A Study of the Later Masters of the Heroic Couplet. By WALLACECABLE BROWN. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina...

...J. Andrew Hubbell While other critics have examined how Antarctic literature of the heroic age of exploration reflected masculine ideals and an imperialist agenda, this essay argues that Shackleton consciously structured South , his memoir of the Endurance 's voyage, around Coleridge's “Rime...

... by earlier playwrights. Yet in spite of his pacific temper, Rowe's hero must go to war, and such necessity becomes an argument for William III's contemporary war with France. In fashioning a warrior who both hates and wages war, Rowe anticipated a number of eighteenth-century heroic figures. Tamerlane 's...

... on Corneille's treatment of heroic action and its place in history, and the remainder becomes, in Corneille's work, something capable of redemption and new life. The argument is focused on three tragedies: Médée (1634), Sertorius (1662), and Tite et Bérénice (1670). © 2008 by University of Washington 2008...