Mock-epic poetry from Pope to Heine

Abstract

Abbreviations Introduction 1. Epic: a genre in stasis? 2. Elements of mock epic 3. Pope's Dunciad and its Successors 4. Voltaire's La Pucelle 5. The Fairy Way of Writing: Wieland 6. Mock Epic Domesticated: Goethe's Herrmann und Dorothea 7. Puritans into Revolutionaries: Butler's Hudibras and Ratschky's Melchior Striegel 8. Heroes in their Underclothes: Blumauer's travesty of the Aeneid 9. Wars in Heaven: Parny's La Guerre des Dieux 10. Byron's Don Juan 11. The Last Mock Epic? Heine's Atta Troll 12. Epilogue Select Bibliography