Robert Hamerling and the survival of epic
Although it is widely believed that in the nineteenth century the epic was replaced by the novel, Robert Hamerling's immensely successful epic <em>Ahasuerus in Rome</em> (1865) exemplifies the genre's continuing popularity. The poem is interpreted as an indirect attack on the p...
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Modern Humanities Research Association
2008
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