Liberal epic : the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / / Edward Adams.
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| Superior document: | Victorian literature and culture series |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Victorian literature and culture series.
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| Physical Description: | x, 322 p. |
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Table of 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.