Temporalities Texts Ideologies

<i><b>Temporalities Texts Ideologies</b></i><b> provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology hierarchy and politics.</b> Examining a diverse range of texts from Homeric epic to eighteenth-century poems on the Last Judgement this collection of essays contends that temporality in literature sits at the heart of how authors from antiquity through to the early modern period understood and negotiated the structures that shaped their lives and may shape lives to come.