Liberal epic
Subtitle: the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill
By: Edward Adams
Series: Victorian literature and culture series; Victorian literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780813931456; 9780813931500
Subjects: Literature and history; War in literature; Liberalism in literature; History and criticism; English Epic literature; History in literature; Liberalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The ethical-aesthetic challenge to epic: Pope, Gibbon, and Scott; title: Romantic liberal epic: Southey, Byron, and Napier; title: Epic history, the novel, and war in the 1850s: Thackeray, MaCaulay, and Carlyle; title: Utilitarianism and the intellectual critique of war: Mill, Creasy, and Buckle; title: Popeian strategies in primitive and modern war epic: Morris, Kinglake, and high Victorian liberal epic; title: Liberal epic before the Great War: Hardy, Trevelyan, Tolstoy, and Keynes; title: Conclusion. from liberal epic to epic liberalism: Churchill and Wedgwood; title: Epilogue. the warm and visible hand of liberal epic.