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Liberal epic the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill

Title
Liberal epic [electronic resource] : 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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Description
1 online resource (x, 322 p.)
Series Statement
Victorian literature and culture series
Uniform Title
  • Liberal epic (Online)
  • Victorian literature and culture series.
Alternative Title
Liberal epic (Online)
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.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2011005590
OCLC
ssj0000606477
Author
Adams, Edward, 1963-
Title
Liberal epic [electronic resource] : 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.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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