Simon Dentith is Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire.

Review of the hardback: 'Dentith's reading of the late-Victorian imperial adventure story … is extremely perceptive, and leads into an illuminating discussion of the divided consciousness at work in T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom …' Literature & History

• Introduction; 1. Homer, Ossian and modernity; 2. Walter Scott and heroic minstrelsy; 3. Epic translation and the national ballad metre; 4. The matter of Britain and the search for a national epic; 5. 'As flat as Fleet Street': Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold and George Eliot on epic and modernity; 6. Mapping epic and novel; 7. Epic and the imperial theme; 8. Kipling, Bard of Empire; 9. Epic and the subject peoples of Empire; 10. Coda: some Homeric futures; Bibliography.

Simon Dentith is Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire.

Review of the hardback: 'Dentith's reading of the late-Victorian imperial adventure story … is extremely perceptive, and leads into an illuminating discussion of the divided consciousness at work in T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom …' Literature & History

• Introduction; 1. Homer, Ossian and modernity; 2. Walter Scott and heroic minstrelsy; 3. Epic translation and the national ballad metre; 4. The matter of Britain and the search for a national epic; 5. 'As flat as Fleet Street': Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold and George Eliot on epic and modernity; 6. Mapping epic and novel; 7. Epic and the imperial theme; 8. Kipling, Bard of Empire; 9. Epic and the subject peoples of Empire; 10. Coda: some Homeric futures; Bibliography.

Simon Dentith is Professor of English at the University of Gloucestershire.

Review of the hardback: 'Dentith's reading of the late-Victorian imperial adventure story … is extremely perceptive, and leads into an illuminating discussion of the divided consciousness at work in T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom …' Literature & History

• Introduction; 1. Homer, Ossian and modernity; 2. Walter Scott and heroic minstrelsy; 3. Epic translation and the national ballad metre; 4. The matter of Britain and the search for a national epic; 5. 'As flat as Fleet Street': Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold and George Eliot on epic and modernity; 6. Mapping epic and novel; 7. Epic and the imperial theme; 8. Kipling, Bard of Empire; 9. Epic and the subject peoples of Empire; 10. Coda: some Homeric futures; Bibliography.