Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART ONE. EPIC AND THE WINNERS
6. ONE. EPIC AND EMPIRE: VERSIONS OF ACTIUM 19
7. TWO. REPETITION AND IDEOLOGY IN THE AENEID 50
8. PART TWO. EPIC AND THE LOSERS
9. THREE. THE EPIC CURSE AND CAMOES' ADAMASTOR 97
10. FOUR. EPICS OF THE DEFEATED: THE OTHER TRADITION OF LUCAN, ERCILLA, AND D'AUBIGNE 131
11. PART THREE. TASSO AND MILTON
12. FIVE. POLITICAL ALLEGORY IN THE GERUSALEMME LIBERATA 211
13. SIX. TASSO, MILTON, AND THE BOAT OF ROMANCE 248
14. SEVEN. PARADISE LOST AND THE FALL OF THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH 268
15. EIGHT. DAVID'S CENSUS: MILTON'S POLITICS AND PARADISE REGAINED 325
16. PART FOUR. A MODERN EPILOGUE
17. NINE. OSSIAN, MEDIEVAL "EPIC," AND EISENSTEIN'S ALEXANDER NEVSKY 341
18. NOTES 369
19. INDEX 427