Feeling History is a study of apostrophe (i.e., the rhetorical device in which the narrator talks directly to his characters) in Lucan\'s Bellum Civile .
The book\'s chief interest.
The purpose of this book is to demonstrate how Lucan\'s style represents a criticism of the Roman approach to history, epic, ethics, and aesthetics.
Through the narrator\'s direct addresses, irony, and grotesque imagery, Lucan appears not as a nihilist, but as a character deeply concerned about ethics.
Feeling History is a study of apostrophe (i.e., the rhetorical device in which the narrator talks directly to his characters) in Lucan\'s Bellum Civile