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Discovering Gilgamesh
- Geology, Narrative and the Historical Sublime in Victorian Culture
Engelsk Hardback

Discovering Gilgamesh

- Geology, Narrative and the Historical Sublime in Victorian Culture
Engelsk Hardback

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In 1872, a young archaeologist at the British Museum made a tremendous discovery. While he was working his way through a Mesopotamian ‘slush pile’, George Smith, a self-taught expert in ancient languages, happened upon a Babylonian version of Noah’s Flood. His research suggested this ‘Deluge Tablet’ pre-dated the writing of Genesis by a millennium or more. Smith went on to translate what later became The Epic of Gilgamesh, perhaps the oldest and most complete work of literature from any culture.

Against the backdrop of innovative readings of a range of paintings, novels, histories and photographs (by figures like Dickens, Eliot, James, Dyce, Turner, Macaulay and Carlyle), this book demonstrates the Gordian complexity of the Victorians’ relationship with history, while also seeking to highlight the Epic’s role in influencing models of time in late-Victorian geology.

Discovering Gilgamesh will be of interest to readers, students and researchers in literary studies, Victorian studies, history, intellectual history, art history and archaeology.



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780719090516
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0719090512
Udg. Dato:
31 okt 2013
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
169mm
Højde:
246mm
Forlag:
Manchester University Press
Oplagsdato:
31 okt 2013
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