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Discovering Gilgamesh : geology, narrative and the historical sublime in Victorian culture / / Vybarr Cregan-Reid



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Autore: Cregan-Reid Vybarr Visualizza persona
Titolo: Discovering Gilgamesh : geology, narrative and the historical sublime in Victorian culture / / Vybarr Cregan-Reid Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource ( xii, 238 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
Disciplina: 892.1
Soggetto topico: Assyro-Babylonian poetry - History and criticism
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Literature
Social & Cultural History
HISTORY / Social History
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Soggetto non controllato: George Smith
Gilgamesh
Victorian geology
narrative
sublime
time
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-646-8
1-5261-0237-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826632603321
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