Discovering Gilgamesh : geology, narrative and the historical sublime in Victorian culture / / Vybarr Cregan-Reid
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Cregan-Reid Vybarr
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| Titolo: |
Discovering Gilgamesh : geology, narrative and the historical sublime in Victorian culture / / Vybarr Cregan-Reid
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 892.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | DISCOVERING GILGAMESH: GEOLOGY, NARRATIVE AND THE HISTORICAL SUBLIME IN VICTORIAN CULTURE; Half Title Page; Title Page ; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 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 timeSelect bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Discovering Gilgamesh |
| ISBN: | 1-78170-646-8 |
| 1-5261-0237-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461044603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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