9783110271942, titled "The Epic Imaginary: Political Power and Its Legitimations in Eighteenth-Century German Literature" | Walter De Gruyter Inc, June 30, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power.