02225nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10554881 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110210s2011 vau sb 001 0 eng d 2011005590 9780813931456 (cloth alk. paper) 9780813931500 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)784960317 e-uk-ui PR468.H57 A33 2011eb 809/.9359 22 Adams, Edward, 1963- Liberal epic [electronic resource] : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. x, 322 p. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Epic literature, English History and criticism. History in literature. War in literature. Liberalism in literature. Liberalism Great Britain History. Literature and history Great Britain History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Victorian literature and culture series. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10554881 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 91847 91847