The History of the Epic

1. Introduction: What is the Epic?
Adeline Johns-Putra

2. The Classical Age: Beginnings
Adeline Johns-Putra

3. The Middle Ages and Renaissance: Epic in the Christian Era
Adeline Johns-Putra

4. The Eighteenth Century: Epic in the Modern World
Adeline Johns-Putra

5. The Nineteenth Century: Epic and the Self
Adeline Johns-Putra

6. The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Modernist Epic
Adeline Johns-Putra

7. The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Epic Film
Adeline Johns-Putra

Keywords: Literature, Literary History