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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Edward, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Series:Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:
Literature and history > Great Britain > History.
Liberalism > Great Britain > History.
Liberalism in literature.
War in literature.
History in literature.
Epic literature, English > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.