Adams, Edward, 1963-

Liberal epic the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / [electronic resource] : Edward Adams. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. - x, 322 p. - Victorian literature and culture series . - Victorian literature and culture series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The ethical-aesthetic challenge to epic: Pope, Gibbon, and Scott -- Romantic liberal epic: Southey, Byron, and Napier -- Epic history, the novel, and war in the 1850s: Thackeray, MaCaulay, and Carlyle -- Utilitarianism and the intellectual critique of war: Mill, Creasy, and Buckle -- Popeian strategies in primitive and modern war epic: Morris, Kinglake, and high Victorian liberal epic -- Liberal epic before the Great War: Hardy, Trevelyan, Tolstoy, and Keynes -- Conclusion. from liberal epic to epic liberalism: Churchill and Wedgwood -- Epilogue. the warm and visible hand of liberal epic.


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Epic literature, English--History and criticism.
History in literature.
War in literature.
Liberalism in literature.
Liberalism--History.--Great Britain
Literature and history--History.--Great Britain


Electronic books.

PR468.H57 / A33 2011eb

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