- 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
- 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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