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Discovering Gilgamesh
Geology, narrative and the historical sublime in Victorian culture|
124,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 01.11.2015 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526102386 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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Beschreibungen
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.
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.
Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture
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 time
Select bibliography
Index
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 time
Select bibliography
Index
Vybarr Cregan-Reid is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Kent
In 1872, a young archaeologist at the British Museum made a tremendous discovery. George Smith, a self-taught cuneiform expert, stumbled across a Babylonian version of what was obviously Noah’s Flood from the Old Testament. His research suggested that his ‘Deluge Tablet’ narrative pre-dated the writing of Genesis by a millennium or more. Smith had found what would later become The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest and most complete works of literature from any culture.
This book is about Smith’s exciting discoveries, but also about the much broader tensions concerning history and time that they highlight in Victorian culture. The controversy and media excitement that the rediscovery of Gilgamesh generates is, Cregan-Reid argues, symptomatic of a larger crisis in the Victorian psyche and its complex relationship with time. Looking at the principal modes of historical narrative’s dissemination in Victorian culture (such as the novel, historiography, painting and photography), this book shows that the Victorians’ sense of their place in history was undeniably complicated. It also demonstrates how the Epic of Gilgamesh influenced models of time in late-Victorian geology.
Against the backdrop of innovative readings of (amongst others) Turner and Dyce, Dickens, Eliot and James, Macaulay and Carlyle, Discovering Gilgamesh will be of interest to students and researchers in literary studies, Victorian studies, history, intellectual history, art history and archaeology.
This book is about Smith’s exciting discoveries, but also about the much broader tensions concerning history and time that they highlight in Victorian culture. The controversy and media excitement that the rediscovery of Gilgamesh generates is, Cregan-Reid argues, symptomatic of a larger crisis in the Victorian psyche and its complex relationship with time. Looking at the principal modes of historical narrative’s dissemination in Victorian culture (such as the novel, historiography, painting and photography), this book shows that the Victorians’ sense of their place in history was undeniably complicated. It also demonstrates how the Epic of Gilgamesh influenced models of time in late-Victorian geology.
Against the backdrop of innovative readings of (amongst others) Turner and Dyce, Dickens, Eliot and James, Macaulay and Carlyle, Discovering Gilgamesh will be of interest to students and researchers in literary studies, Victorian studies, history, intellectual history, art history and archaeology.
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