The Politics of the Epic
Wordsworth, Byron, and the Romantic Redefinition of Heroism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8036825 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul A Cantor (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 375-401 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670507000733 |
| OpenAlex | W2044075847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
Traditionally, the epic focused on the heroic deeds of great public figures, but the Romantics remade the genre into something more personal, making the poet himself the hero of their epics. The Romantic disillusionment with politics, flowing from the failure of the French Revolution, lies behind their revaluation of heroism. The turn to nature, which the Romantics present as immediate, turns out to be mediated by their political experience. Wordsworth's The Prelude and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage are good examples of the Romantic transformation of the epic and provide a case study in the relation of politics and literature, specifically the politics of literary form
Ancient history · Art · EPIC · HERO · Literature · Pilgrimage · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Romance · History · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Byron, Radicals and Reformers
Byron’s Italy
Piracies, Fakes and Forgeries
The Pisan Circle and the Cockney School
Periodical Culture, the Literary Review and the Mass Media
Recollections, Conversations and Biographies
Texts and Editions
Politics
Byron’s Lyric Practice
Orientalism
Byron in Context
Greece’s Byron
The Remediation of the Epic in Digital Games
What’s in a Name? Toward the Study of Names in Political Science
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |