Marcus Flaminius

Marcus Flaminius is a 1792 historical novel by the British writer Cornelia Knight. It drew on Knight's classical learning and was dedicated to Horace Walpole. 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.

References

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.

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