{"product_id":"epic-and-empire-david-quint-9780691015200","title":"Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton","description":"\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\u003eQuint 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Quint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691015201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691015200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 5.97w x 0.91d","brand":"David Quint","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925599846655,"sku":"9780691015200","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c398b9b9-0daa-48ca-a061-8864f33fff30.jpg?v=1681078230","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/epic-and-empire-david-quint-9780691015200","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}