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| Author | Cornelia Knight |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical |
| Publisher | Charles Dilly |
Publication date | 1792 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Marcus Flaminius is a 1792 historical novel by the British writer Cornelia Knight.1 It drew on Knight's classical learning and was dedicated to Horace Walpole.2 Taking the form of a epistolary novel it depicts a Roman soldier Marcus Flaminius captured by the Germanic forces at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. After spending several years as a prisoner and outsider amongst the Cherusci, he then returns to the corrupt Rome of Emperor Tiberius. Knight uses the novel to reflect indirectly on the recent French Revolution.3
References
References
- Looser p.190
- O'Brien p.208
- O'Brien pp. 208-9
Bibliography
Bibliography
- Looser, Devoney (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Mitchell, Kate. Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past. Springer, 2012.
- O'Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.