Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Discovering Gilgamesh (eBook, ePUB)

Geology, narrative and the historical sublime in Victorian culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526102386
• Artikelnr.: 48795620

Autorenporträt

Vybarr Cregan-Reid is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

Part I - Gilgamesh Introduction 1. Discovering Gilgamesh Part II -
Narrative and the historical sublime 2. Capturing time: the iconography of
water in painting and photography 3. Forgetting the past and the future:
Macaulay, Carlyle, and the 'shoreless chaos' of history 4. Present endings:
rethinking closure in the Victorian novel Part III - Geology, Gilgamesh,
and the historical sublime 5. Conclusion: Gilgamesh and the resublimation
of deep time Select bibliography Index