Marcus Flaminius Explained

Marcus Flaminius
Author:	Cornelia Knight
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Historical
Publisher:	Charles Dilly
Release Date:	1792
Media Type:	Print

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 hisseveral 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]

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.

Notes and References

1. Looser p.190
2. O'Brien p.208
3. O'Brien p.208-9