Research Catalog

Title

Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.

Author

Adams, Edward, 1963-

Publication

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

x, 322 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Victorian literature and culture series

Uniform Title

Victorian literature and culture series.

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 11-3509

ISBN

• 9780813931456 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0813931452 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780813931500 (e-book)
• 0813931509 (e-book)

LCCN

2011005590

OCLC

YBP 2011005590

Author

Adams, Edward, 1963-

Title

Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / Edward Adams.

Imprint

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Series

Victorian literature and culture series

Victorian literature and culture series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 11-3509