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Author:

Adams, Edward, 1963-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

x, 322 p. ; 25 cm.

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.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

ISBN:

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

OCLC:

(OCoLC)702168888

LCCN:

2011005590

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)