02225nam a2200409 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003700112020002700149040002100176035002100197043001200218050002600230082001800256100002600274245011900300260006000419300001400479490004400493504005100537505061600588533015201204650005301356650002701409650002301436650003001459650004001489650005201529655002901581710001701610830004501627856012601672999001701798ebr10554881CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||110210s2011    vau     sb    001 0 eng d  z  2011005590  z9780813931456 (cloth alk. paper)  z9780813931500 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)784960317  ae-uk-ui14aPR468.H57bA33 2011eb04a809/.93592221 aAdams, Edward,d1963-10aLiberal epich[electronic resource] :bthe Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill /cEdward Adams.  aCharlottesville :bUniversity of Virginia Press,c2011.  ax, 322 p.1 aVictorian literature and culture series  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction -- 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aEpic literature, EnglishxHistory and criticism. 0aHistory in literature. 0aWar in literature. 0aLiberalism in literature. 0aLiberalismzGreat BritainxHistory. 0aLiterature and historyzGreat BritainxHistory. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc. 0aVictorian literature and culture series.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10554881zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c91847d91847