A lively account of the Romantic-era revival of epic literature set against the background of British imperialism's evangelical turn.

Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancie

The Italian romance epic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with its multitude of characters, complex plots, and roots in medieval Carolingian epic and A

A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as incisive critic of the material, moral, and psychological conditions of commercial modernity.