Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Whatever Happened to the Epic? : [Introduction to the fate of epic in the past three centuries and the influence of Milton]
- Chapter Two Leaving Paradise: [The final books of Paradise Lost and the end of an epic tradition]
- Chapter Three An Epic Told in Letters: [The migration of epic to the novel in Richardson’s Clarissa]
- Chapter Four Prospects and Living Pictures: [Epic history-writing in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]
- Chapter Five Analyzing a Soul: [Wordsworth’s Prelude and Autobiographical Epic]
- Chapter Six Epic Heroinism: [The Icelandic Völsunga Saga and Wagner’s Ring]
- Chapter Seven Cinematic Spectacle and the Hero: [The epic in film: Hollywood in the 1960s, and Abel Gance’s silent Napoléon]
- Chapter Eight Paradise Sought: The African American Odyssey: [The Great Migration in memoir, poetry, fiction and Jacob Lawrence’s paintings]
- Chapter Nine Imaginary History and Epic Fantasy: [Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion]
- Chapter Ten The Epic in Future Tense: [Frederick Turner’s three epic poems: The New World, Genesis and Apocalypse]
- Chapter Eleven Heaven and Hell Reimagined: [Tony Kushner’s Angels in America]
- Chapter Twelve Translating and Recentering Old Epics: [Contemporary translations of ancient epics and fictional adaptations by Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin, Madeline Miller, Maria Dahvana Headley]
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Whatever Happened to the Epic? : [Introduction to the fate of epic in the past three centuries and the influence of Milton]
- Chapter Two Leaving Paradise: [The final books of Paradise Lost and the end of an epic tradition]
- Chapter Three An Epic Told in Letters: [The migration of epic to the novel in Richardson’s Clarissa]
- Chapter Four Prospects and Living Pictures: [Epic history-writing in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]
- Chapter Five Analyzing a Soul: [Wordsworth’s Prelude and Autobiographical Epic]
- Chapter Six Epic Heroinism: [The Icelandic Völsunga Saga and Wagner’s Ring]
- Chapter Seven Cinematic Spectacle and the Hero: [The epic in film: Hollywood in the 1960s, and Abel Gance’s silent Napoléon]
- Chapter Eight Paradise Sought: The African American Odyssey: [The Great Migration in memoir, poetry, fiction and Jacob Lawrence’s paintings]
- Chapter Nine Imaginary History and Epic Fantasy: [Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion]
- Chapter Ten The Epic in Future Tense: [Frederick Turner’s three epic poems: The New World, Genesis and Apocalypse]
- Chapter Eleven Heaven and Hell Reimagined: [Tony Kushner’s Angels in America]
- Chapter Twelve Translating and Recentering Old Epics: [Contemporary translations of ancient epics and fictional adaptations by Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin, Madeline Miller, Maria Dahvana Headley]
- Index
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- Epic Ambitions in Modern TimesFrom Paradise Lost to the New Millennium, pp. xii - xivPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2022